Chaudry has served as director of the workplace of human proper, variety and fairness at Edmonton’s MacEwan College, and is the founding father of Develop the Sport, a hub for anti-racism sources within the hockey group
CALGARY — Hockey Canada has employed human rights chief Irfan Chaudhry as its first vice-president of variety and inclusion.
The nationwide sports activities group introduced the transfer Friday, saying in a launch that Chaudry will lead the event of “a imaginative and prescient and technique to create and maintain a tradition inside hockey that embraces and promotes fairness, variety and inclusion.”
Chaudry has served as director of the workplace of human proper, variety and fairness at Edmonton’s MacEwan College, and is the founding father of Develop the Sport, a hub for anti-racism sources within the hockey group.
He has additionally been a member of the Hockey Canada Range and Inclusion Advisory Group since 2022.
His hiring follows a tumultuous 12 months the place Hockey Canada repeatedly got here underneath fireplace for its dealing with of sexual assault allegations and hushed payouts to victims.
The group’s board of administrators resigned on Oct. 11 and president and CEO Scott Smith was ousted from his function. A brand new board of administrators was elected on Dec. 17.