Poonam Puri LSM, LLM, ICD.D
Director-in-Residence
Corporate Director and Professor of Corporate Governance, Osgoode Hall Law School.
Corporate Director and Professor of Corporate Governance, Osgoode Hall Law School.
Poonam Puri is a tenured full professor of business law and former Associate Dean at Osgoode Hall Law School. She is an experienced corporate director, a practising corporate/securities lawyer at Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP, and one of Canada’s most respected experts in corporate governance, business strategy and ESG.
Ms. Puri serves on public and private company boards in a broad range of industries spanning real estate, infrastructure, engineering, mining and fintech. She currently serves as a director of Colliers International Group, Propel Holdings, DRI Healthcare Trust, Solaris Resources and Canada Infrastructure Bank. Poonam is a former Ontario Securities Commission commissioner and a former director of the Greater Toronto Airports Authority, CAPREIT, Arizona Mining and Cole Engineering. She is also a former director of Women’s College Hospital and currently serves as Chair of Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital in Toronto.
Ms. Puri has been recognized with the Peter Dey Governance Achievement Award, the Law Society Medal, the Ontario Attorney General’s David Walter Mundell Medal, and the Royal Society of Canada’s Yvan Allaire Medal for excellence in contributions to governance. She is a past recipient of Canada’s Top 40 under 40 and has been recognized as one of the top 25 most influential lawyers in Canada by Canadian Lawyer Magazine. Ms. Puri is a graduate of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law (LL.B., 1995, Silver Medalist) and Harvard Law School (LL.M., 1997).