Mr. Chisanga Puta-Chekwe Awarded a Medal

The Society of Ontario Adjudicators and Regulators (SOAR) this November honoured Mr. Chisanga Puta-Chekwe with a medal at its SOAR Medal Dinner. The SOAR Medal is awarded to those individuals whose achievement in the field of administrative justice, goes above and beyond the successful completion of day-to-day responsibilities. Mr. Puta-Chekwe joins more than forty others who have been honoured with this medal of achievement since 1995.

On March 9, 2009 Mr. Chisanga Puta-Chekwe was appointed as Deputy Minister of Citizenship and Immigration and Deputy Minister Responsible for Women's Issues by Premier Dalton McGuinty, Premier of Ontario Province.

Mr. Puta-Chekwe studied law at the University of Birmingham in England. A Rhodes scholar, he received a Master of Law degree from the University of London, and B.A. and M.A. degrees in philosophy, politics and economics from the University of Oxford.