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Ratna Omidvar is the founding Executive Director of the Global Diversity Exchange (GDX) at the Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University. GDX is a think and do tank on diversity, migration and inclusion that connects local experience and ideas with global networks. It is dedicated to building a community of international leaders who see prosperity in migration. Ratna is an internationally recognized expert, speaker and commentator on migration, diversity, integration and inclusion. Previously, she was the President of Maytree, where she played a lead role in local, national and international efforts to promote the integration of immigrants.

 

Ratna is Director of the Centre for Mental Health and Addiction (CAMH), The Environics Institute, and Samara. She is Chair of Lifeline Syria, Chair Emeritus of the Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council and Co-Chair of DiverseCity: the Greater Toronto Leadership Project. Ratna is co-editor of Five Good Ideas: Practical Strategies for Non-Profit Success (2011) and co-author of Flight and Freedom: Stories of Escape to Canada (forthcoming). She received an Honorary Degree, Doctor of Laws, York University in 2012.

 

Ratna was appointed to the Order of Ontario in 2005 and became a Member of the Order of Canada in 2011, with both honours recognizing her advocacy work on behalf of immigrants and devotion to reducing inequality in Canada. In 2010, Canada’s national newspaper, The Globe and Mail, profiled her as its Nation Builder of the Decade for Citizenship. In 2014, Ratna received the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in recognition of her contribution to the advancement of German-Canadian relations.