Advocate for innovative solutions to complex global challenges.

Samantha Nutt

FOUNDER OF WAR CHILD

GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN

PUBLIC HEALTH SPECIALIST

SPEAKING FEE: $10,000 - $15,000

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Meet Samantha

Trusted voice in navigating foreign policy and the impacts of war on vulnerable populations

Named one of “Canada’s Five Leading Activists” by TIME magazine

Works to improve the resilience and wellbeing of children living with violence

For more than 20 years, Dr. Samantha Nutt has been on the frontlines of many of the world’s major crises. A medical doctor and founder and president of the internationally renowned non-profit organizations, War Child Canada and War Child USA, she is one of the most intrepid and recognized voices in the humanitarian arena and a leading authority on current affairs, public health, war, and foreign policy. Samantha draws on her incredible wealth of experience to share unique insights into global issues and what they mean to her audiences.

Samantha is a respected authority for many of North America’s leading media outlets. She is a regular foreign affairs panelist on the acclaimed news program, CBC’s The National, and a contributor to NowThis News. Her written work has been published by TED Ideas, Reuters, The Globe and Mail, The National Post, The Toronto Star, Maclean’s Magazine, The Ottawa Citizen, The Huffington Post, and many others. She has also been featured in AP News, Forbes, TIME, Chatelaine, and More magazine, and on NBC Nightly News, BBC World News Service, America’s Radio News Network, NPR, CTV’s Power Play, CTV National News, Global TV News, and CBC Radio, to name a few.

In addition, Samantha is a staff physician at Women’s College Hospital in Toronto and an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Toronto. She also authored the critically acclaimed and number-one bestselling book, Damned Nations: Greed, Guns, Armies, and Aid, which is a bracing and uncompromising account of her work in some of the most devastated regions of the world. In 2016, Samantha spoke at the TED Talks Live “War and Peace” event at The Town Hall Theatre in New York, which aired on PBS. Her talk on the deadly impact of small arms has since garnered over a million views on TED.com.

Named one of Canada’s “25 most influential figures” by The Globe and Mail and one of “Canada’s Five Leading Activists” by TIME magazine, Samantha was recognized as a Young Global Leader by World Economic Forum and has been appointed to both the Order of Ontario and the Order of Canada. Most recently, she was awarded the prestigious Loyola Medal by Concordia University.

Samantha holds a Fellowship in Community Medicine (FRCPC) from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. She is further certified by the College of Family Practice and completed a sub-specialization in women’s health through the University of Toronto as a Women’s Health Scholar. She is also a senior fellow at University of Toronto’s Massey College and a former board member of the David Suzuki Foundation.

SPEAKING TOPICS

Over the last decade, we've seen a lot of corporations scrambling to add a social responsibility component to their brand. Consumers want to buy from a company that is doing good in the world. Millennials are estimated to account for 1.3 trillion dollars, and they are demanding that the companies they buy from are caring and authentic. But how do we know if these companies are truly making a difference? Samantha Nutt has witnessed first-hand the social responsibility efforts of these corporations—and she knows what works, and sadly, what efforts can be detrimental. In this presentation, Samantha discussed the most pressing issues your company can tackle and how to create an effective strategy around social responsibility that results in real, lasting global improvement.
This presentation combines humor and personal reflections on women in the 21st century and why the women’s movement is unfinished everywhere. Samantha Nutt’s often satirical take on hot topics such as “Lean In” and whether “women can have it all” offers an engaging, thought-provoking and entertaining examination of the challenges women still face in the world and how women (and men) can advocate for change.
Our world is accelerating, and our communities are colliding, not always for the better. Whether it is the terrible garment factory fires in Bangladesh, the diamonds on our fingers, the components in our cell phones, the profits in our pensions, or the environmental wreckage –such as the Gulf oil spill – associated with our energy needs, our interdependence means that we need to frame the questions differently. How do I get it cheaper, and faster and better, must also be accompanied by questions of how do we get it right? And answering that question is a lifelong pursuit. In this presentation, Dr. Samantha Nutt examines our obligations to the wider world: How do we impact on it, and how does it impact on us? What do we know, and what do we need to learn?
Dr. Samantha Nutt has frontline experience providing aid and medical care to people in crisis all around the world. This presentation focuses on her personal story, sharing insight she’s gained on how to tap into resiliency and avoid being overcome by feelings of helplessness and hopelessness during times of great uncertainty.
Samantha has spent years working in war zones, facing daily fear and dread about the unknown. With this uplifting presentation, she helps audiences understand the emotional ups and downs during crisis and develop the important skill of dealing with change.