Sunil Gurmukh

Sunil Gurmukh is a human rights lawyer and Visiting Lecturer at Western Law, where he is leading the Hidden Racial Profiling Project and teaching courses on hate speech in Canada and racial profiling in policing.

He has worked on significant human rights cases at the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario and all levels of court, including the Supreme Court of Canada. He has a B.Comm. from Queen's University (2005) and an LL.B. from Western University (2008). He articled at Hicks Morley Hamilton Stewart Storie LLP and was called to the bar in 2009.

Sunil is currently on leave from his role of Counsel at the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC). Prior to joining the OHRC in 2011, he worked at the African Canadian Legal Clinic as a Staff Lawyer.

He has been recognized for his human rights work as a winner of the 2016 Precedent Setter Award and 2017 Hennessy V.S.O.P. Privilège Award and member of Bay Street Bull’s 2017 Power 50 Guide. In 2019, he was named as one of country's top 25 most influential lawyers by Canadian Lawyer Magazine. He also won Western’s Young Alumni Award in 2021.