Salima Ebrahim
Chief of Staff, City of Edmonton
2026
Salima Ebrahim is Chief of Staff and Intergovernmental Affairs for the City of Edmonton and a member of the Executive Leadership Team with responsibility for executing on significant strategic, operational and cultural agendas calling for considerable change and navigating through uncertainty and risk. She is also responsible for key lines of service including corporate strategy, intergovernmental and regional affairs, system alignment, senior level relationship management and led the city’s anti-racism and reconciliation work. She is a senior level executive with experience spanning the private, not for profit and public sector with national and international experience.
Salima is a former fellow with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. She has her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Alberta and her Master of Science from the London School of Economics and is a graduate of the 2025 class of the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership initiative for senior leaders in city government.
An active member of the community, she currently sits on the boards of Pier 21, Canada’s Immigration Museum and CARE Canada where she chairs the Governance, People and Culture Committee.
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