Claudia Mitchell is James McGill Professor and Director, Institute for Human Development and Well-Being (IHDW) at McGill University She is a 2017 Trudeau Fellowship recipient. She has worked with the Canadian International Development Agency (now Global Affairs Canada), UNICEF, UNESCO, and the Gorbachev Foundation. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada's Academy of Social Sciences. In 2016, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council recognized the impact of her quarter-century of SSHRC-funded research and other achievements with the SSHRC Gold Medal, the agency's highest honour.