Fiona K. Robin

Fiona Robin is a partner at Basran Robin Allen & Desilets. She was a member of the Board of Governors of Simon Fraser University for six years, and was Chair of the Board for the last two years. Ms. Robin also chaired SFU’s Presidential Search Committee. Ms. Robin is a former adjunct professor at the Peter A. Allard School of Law.

Prior to becoming a lawyer, Ms. Robin worked on Parliament Hill in Ottawa as a political assistant for six years. Specifically, she was an advisor to (what was then known as) the Minister of Indian Affairs. She then worked for the Solicitor General of Canada providing advice on issues pertaining to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and enforcement policy.  

Ms. Robin also worked at INTERPOL headquarters in Lyon, France. Active in the legal community, Ms. Robin was a contributing author to the Annotated Family Practice Manual for sixteen years. She is a frequent guest lecturer for the Professional Legal Training Course and has written and presented several papers for Continuing Legal Education. 

Ms. Robin is a founding member of the Family Advocates Group, a study group of senior members of the family bar that has been in place since 2006. Ms. Robin is a former member of the Board of Trustees of the Canadian Museum of Civilization and the Canadian War Museum, where she sat for four years. She is also a former member of the British Columbia Judicial Advisory Committee (2015 – 2017).

Ms. Robin obtained her undergraduate degree at the University of Calgary, her law degree at the University of British Columbia and was called to the British Columbia bar in 2000.