Justin Trudeau has stepped down as the Prime Minister of Canada and now eyes are on the candidates who are the front-runners for the top post. One of the key front-runners is Indian-origin leader Anita Anand who is a lawyer and a Liberal Party leader since 2019. Anita Indira Anand, a 57-year-old Indian-origin lawyer and politician, was born in Kentville, Nova Scotia. Her parents are physicians. Anita Anand has two sisters, Gita and Sonia Anand and is married to her batchmate John, whom she met while pursuing a Canadian law degree at Dalhousie University before articling in Toronto. The couple has four children.
While Anita Anand has been born and brought up in Canada, she has a strong ‘India connection’ because of her parents, who were born in India. Anita Anand’s father SV Anand was a general surgeon who was born in Tamil Nadu while her mother, Saroj D Ram, was an anesthesiologist. Anita Anand’s paternal grandfather, VA Sundaram had also been a part of India’s Independence movement.
After completing her schooling, Anita Anand moved to Ontario for her undergraduate degree in Political Studies at the Queen’s University where she won a gold medal in 1989. She then went to Wadham College, Oxford to read la and then returned to Nova Scotia for her Canadian law degree at Dalhousie University. Anita Anand has held academic positions at the world’s most prestigious colleges including Yale, Queen’s University and Western University; she was also a law professor at the University of Toronto before her election.
The Indian-origin lawyer-politician holds a total of four degrees – BA (Hons) in Political Studies from Queen’s University, BA (Hons) in Jurisprudence from Wadham College in Oxford University, Bachelors of Laws from Dalhousie University and Master of Laws from University of Toronto.
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