Celeste Haldane, K.C.

Celeste Haldane, K.C., ICD.D, is a practising lawyer and a strategic advisor, and recently completed the ICD-Rotman Directors Education Program. Celeste is a proud member of Musqueam (Coast Salish) and Metlakatla (Tsimshian) from the Sparrow and Haldane families and has European ancestry, with several of her maternal family members residing in Sointula.

She draws upon 20 years of experience practising First Nations law, Constitutional Law, and Human Resource Law, with a sharp focus on Corporate Governance as her specialty. For nine years, she served as the Chief Commissioner of the BC Treaty Commission, and prior to that, she served six years as the First Nations Summit elected Commissioner. She practised law for a large First Nations organization on Vancouver Island and practised criminal defence and civil litigation in Vancouver. She is an active member of both the Indigenous Bar Association and the Canadian Bar Association.

She holds a Master of Laws in Constitutional Law from Osgoode Hall Law School at York University. She earned a Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Arts (Anthropology) from the University of British Columbia. She was honoured with being appointed Queen's Counsel, now King's Counsel, in 2018. Celeste is currently the Vice-Chair at the YWCA BC. She has served on several corporate and not-for-profit boards. Most recently, she served on the independent appointing committee for the Taxonomy and Transition Planning Council, which will oversee the creation and implementation of the new made-in-Canada sustainable finance taxonomy.