Irfan Chaudhry
Vice President, Diversity & Inclusion, Hockey Canada
2024
Irfan Chaudhry has been working in the area of equity, diversity, inclusion (EDI) and human rights since 2011. He has held numerous roles within the EDI space including leadership positions with MacEwan University, the City of Edmonton, and currently, with Hockey Canada as the inaugural Vice President, Diversity and Inclusion.
He has held special advisory positions with the City of Edmonton’s Community Safety and Wellbeing Taskforce, as well as with the Edmonton Police Service Chief of Police Diversity Recruitment Committee and Chief of Police Community Advisory Committee. He is an active member of the Alberta Hate Crimes Committee and Public Safety Canada’s Expert Committee on Countering Radicalization to Violence.
My network of professionals working on countering hate in all its forms grew exponentially after attending Eradicate Hate in 2021. The myriad voices represented at Eradicate Hate, from big tech companies to academic researchers to those with lived experience, reinforced to me the importance of cross-cutting and collaborative approaches to counter hate and its devastating impacts on society. I’ve been fortunate to sustain and build those networks with many of those I met at Eradicate Hate in 2021.
