"Academic Career
Anita Anand began her academic career in 1997. She served for two years as an adjunct assistant professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Western Ontario. She then moved to the Faculty of Law at Queen's University as an assistant professor. Anand earned international recognition in 2005–06, when she was a Canada-U.S. Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Olin Scholar in Law and Economics at Yale Law School. She was also a visiting scholar at the Bank of Canada and the University of Cambridge.
In 2006, Anand became a full professor at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law. She was the faculty’s associate dean from 2007 to 2009. She was also the university’s academic director of the Centre for the Legal Profession; the J.R. Kimber Chair in Investor Protection and Corporate Governance; a senior fellow and member of the governing board at Massey College; and the director of policy and research at the Capital Markets Institute at the Rotman School of Management.
In 2015, the Ontario government appointed Anand to its Expert Committee to Consider Financial Advisory and Financial Planning Policy Alternatives. She led research projects for Ontario's Five Year Review Committee. She also served on the federal government’s Task Force to Modernize Securities Legislation in Canada and its Wise Person's Committee."
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"In the early 1960s, Anand’s mother and father, Saroj Daulat Ram and Sundaram Vivek Anand—an anaesthetist and general surgeon—were living in Nigeria with their preschool-aged daughter, Gita, when Sundaram travelled to investigate the possibility of immigrating to Canada or the United States. The first place he landed was Halifax. He rented a car, drove to Nova Scotia’s bucolic Annapolis Valley and discovered the right place for his family. They settled in Kentville, a picturesque town of 6,000, where Anita was born in 1967 and her sister Sonia in 1968. They were one of the few South Asian families around at the time, and with no relatives in Canada, they grew up knit tightly to each other and their hometown. “We were definitely distinct,” Anand says. “But by the same token, we were one of the community.”"
