Erin Hunt is the Executive Director of Mines Action Canada. She has been working in humanitarian disarmament in various capacities since 2006 and doing public education on the Ottawa Treaty banning landmines since 2003.    Hunt's areas of expertise include the humanitarian impact of landmines and cluster munitions as well as the Ottawa Treaty, the Convention on Cluster Munitions, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, the ongoing diplomatic efforts to prohibit autonomous weapons systems (killer robots), and gender and disarmament. She can speak about Canadian policies on disarmament issues more broadly.   Hunt has a master’s degree in Human Security and Peacebuilding from Royal Roads University.

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