Laura Tamblyn Watts

Ms. Tamblyn Watts is a corporate director and the CEO of CanAge, Canada’s national seniors’ advocacy organization. Ms. Tamblyn Watts is a public interest executive serving on the CIRO Board. Her career spans 25 years of extensive advocacy work focusing on aging, inclusion, consumer rights and social justice.

Ms. Tamblyn Watts currently serves on a number of boards and committees including as Chair of the Consumer Advisory Panel of the Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Ontario (FSRA), a member of the Retirement Homes Regulatory Authority Consumer Advisory Panel and as the consumer appointee on the Bereavement Authority of Ontario. She previously served on the IIROC board and its Corporate Governance Committee.

She is a Canadian expert appointee on the North American Securities Administrators’ Association’s Seniors’ and Vulnerable Persons Committee, as well as being a founding member of the OSC’s Seniors’ Expert Advisory Committee. Her #1 Bestselling new book Let’s Talk About Aging Parents was released in April 2024.

Ms. Tamblyn Watts was awarded the 2020–2021 Community Leadership in Justice Fellowship by the Law Foundation of Ontario. She was also awarded the Distinguished International Fellow Award from Stetson University Centre for Excellence in Elder Law and is a Canadian representative to the International Guardianship Network, and Fellow of the World Congress on Adult Guardianship.

She received her undergraduate degree in Political Science (Honours) from Queen’s University and her law degree (with Honours) from the University of Victoria.