Canada India Foundation (CIF).

Western Canada Convener, CIF
Co-Founder, Pundit & Chotalia LLP
Chair, Canadian Bar Association Immigration Section
Instructor, Law Faculty, University of Alberta

Ms. Shirish P. Chotalia, Q.C. is a lawyer with Pundit & Chotalia LLP and practices in the areas of immigration, human rights, employment and general civil litigation. She has successfully litigated many high profile cases. She has been an instructor at the University of Alberta's Law Faculty since 1995,intermittently, and currently teaches Terrorism and the Law. She is also a Bencher of the Law Society of Alberta, the body responsible for the governance of lawyers and the legal profession. Shirish has written several books and many articles about human rights law and immigration law.  She is currently the Chair of the Canadian Bar Association Immigration Section, Northern Alberta, and is a member of the Selection Advisory Board of Canada that assists the government to select immigration adjudicators. She was formerly an adjudicator with the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal from 1999 to 2005. She was a Commissioner with the Alberta Human Rights Commission from 1989 to 1993.

Ms. Chotalia obtained her Bachelor of Arts in 1983, her Bachelor of Laws in 1986 and her Master of Laws in 1991 from the University of Alberta. She was admitted to the Bar of Alberta in 1987. She speaks several languages including French, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati.