Dr. Sheema Khan (2023)

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April 25, 2024

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Patent Agent/Patent Strategist | Monthly Columnist with the Globe and Mail

Sheema Khan grew up in Montreal and attended McGill where she completed a B.Sc. in Chemistry and played recreational women’s hockey on the McGill women’s soccer team. Subsequently, she then completed a Masters in Physics and a PhD in Chemical Physics from Harvard University, while starting the women’s rec hockey league at Harvard. After completing post-doctoral research at MIT and McGill, Sheema worked as an R&D scientist in pharmaceutical sciences and is an inventor with numerous patents in drug delivery technology.

Since 2002, she has been a monthly columnist for The Globe and Mail. She is also the founder of CAIR-CAN, and testified as an expert witness in the Commission of Inquiry Into the Actions of Canadian Officials in Relation to Maher Arar. She has served on the Board of CAIR-CAN, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association and the United Nations Association in Canada. She currently serves on the Board of the Harvard Club of Ottawa, and the newly-formed Ottawa Chapter of CHiPS, a non-profit organization that advances and connects women in technology, law and policy.

She is the author “Of Hockey and Hijab: Reflections of a Canadian Muslim Woman”. In 2012, she was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for service to Canada. In 2015, she presented a TedX talk “Write Your Own Story”, about critical thinking. In 2022, she was selected as one of three Women Leaders in Ottawa by the Ottawa Board of Trade.

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