Ryerson University Selects Next Ombuds

Maureen Helt is the new Ombudsperson for students at the public research university in Toronto, joining Assistant Ombudspersons Ayesha Adam and Gemma Kerr. Helt comes to the role with 25 years of legal, investigative, and dispute resolution experience, most recently as vice-chair and adjudicator at Tribunals Ontario. She moved to Ryerson in mid-January 2022.

Helt's career also included stints as Senior Legal Counsel for the Ontario Energy Board and Discipline Counsel for the Law Society of Upper Canada. She graduated from Queen's University and earned a Master's at York University Osgood Hall Law School. (LinkedIn, via FCO.)

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