Peter Williamson is a policy analyst with over 25 years of experience working on Indigenous policies, programs, intergovernmental relations, land claims, and self-government issues. Peter works for the Canadian High Arctic Research Station where he wrote its first Inuit Employment Plan, subject to Article 23 of the Nunavut Agreement. He previously worked at Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, representing Inuit at the United Nations CITES and Biological Diversity conferences, and addressed Indigenous harvesting rights with the European Union.

Peter has a Bachelor of Commerce in Entrepreneurial Management from Royal Roads University (2018), Master of Business Administration from Vancouver Island University (2021), and Master of Science in International Management from University of Hertfordshire (2021). During his MBA, he wrote a Policy Paper in response to the closure of two Urban Indigenous Learning Centres by the Province of British Columbia, which addressed child welfare, education rights, public servant capacity building, and the right to self-determination, under the TRC and UNDRIP.

Peter has seven years of federal land claims and self-government policy experience. His doctoral research will examine treaty, domestic, and international law obligations; review academic research and practices respecting values-based governance, inter alia; current practices by the parties of the Nunavut Agreement to incorporate Inuit Societal Values (ISVs) into public government administration, and how they reflect in human resources and program management, and; develop a new governance model that will incorporate ISVs into federal, territorial, and municipal government decision-making structures in Nunavut.