Katherine (Kate) E. Todd is a Sub-Lieutenant in the Royal Canadian Navy Reserves, a Senior Fellow at Arctic360, and a Fellow at the North American and Arctic Defence Security Network. She is also a member of the Canadian Naval Review’s Editorial Board and Canadian Maritime Security Network’s Advisory Board and regularly publishes works on Canadian defence issues.
In 2024, Kate graduated with a Master of Public Policy from the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, where she focused her studies on Arctic defence, infrastructure and economic development, and Indigenous rights.
During this degree, she was awarded the Women in Defence and Security – CGAI Fellowship, a SSHRC scholarship, and Department of National Defence Mobilizing Insights in National Security and Defence Studies scholarship.
She also presented at the Canadian Defence Association Institute’s 2024 Graduate Student Conference, the North American and Arctic Defence Security Network's 2023 and 2024 Emerging Leaders Week Conferences, and Emerging Ideas Series panel discussion, was a Senior Editor at the NATO Association of Canada, Research Assistant at the University of Toronto, completed a summer internship as a Policy Analyst at Canada's Department of National Defence, and was recognized as one of The Peak’s 2024 Top 35 Under 40 Emerging Leaders in politics and government.
In 2022, Kate graduated with high distinction from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Arts with honours specializing in political science and minoring in public law, was awarded the University of Toronto's prestigious John H. Moss Scholarship that recognizes one undergraduate student per year across all three University of Toronto campuses for their academic achievement and community leadership, hosted a podcast called Voice Above where she’s interviewed expert guests about current affairs including the Governor General of Canada, and was a Junior Research Fellow at the NATO Association of Canada.
Kate’s research interests include:
- economic, energy, Arctic, maritime, and national security and defence;
- critical infrastructure, economic, and northern development;
- Indigenous rights and affairs and sustainability; and,
- intra and intergovernmental affairs in Canada.
You can connect with Kate at [email protected] or https://www.linkedin.com/in/kate-e-todd/.