Sheila Watt-Cloutier

Sheila Watt-Cloutier is a past president of the Inuit Circumpolar Council and has also served as President of ICC Canada. She was a spokesperson for a coalition of northern Indigenous Peoples in the global negotiations that led to the 2001 Stockholm Convention banning the generation and use of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) that contaminate the arctic food web.  

 

In February 2007, she was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by members of the Norwegian Parliament. She was also chosen as one of four ‘Canadians who made a difference’ by Canada Post and will be memorialized on a Canadian stamp in 2012. She is currently a visiting scholar at Mount Allison University in Moncton, New Brunswick, where she is finishing her forthcoming book, The Right to be Cold.