Samantha Nutt
Founder & Executive Director, War Child North America
Samantha Nutt is an award-winning humanitarian, medical doctor, best-selling author and acclaimed public speaker..
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Samantha Nutt is an award-winning humanitarian, medical doctor, best-selling author and acclaimed public speaker. Her debut book Damned Nations: Greed Guns, Armies and Aid was a #1 national bestseller and is currently taught in select schools and colleges across North America. Damned Nations is a bracing and uncompromising account of Dr. Nutt’s work in some of the most devastated regions of the world.
As founder of the renowned international humanitarian organization War Child, Dr. Nutt has worked with children and their families at the frontline of many of the world’s major crises – from Iraq to Afghanistan, Somalia to the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Syria to Darfur, Sudan. A leading authority on current affairs, war, international aid and foreign policy, she is one of the most intrepid and recognized voices in the humanitarian arena. With a career that has spanned more than two decades and dozens of conflict zones, her international work has benefited hundreds of thousands of war-affected children.
As an original thinker and charismatic personality, Dr. Nutt is a respected authority for many of North America’s leading media outlets. She is a regular panelist on Canada’s premier nightly news show, CBC TV NEWS The National with Peter Mansbridge, where she debates foreign policy and current affairs. Her written work has been published by Maclean’s Magazine, Reuters, The Globe and Mail, The National Post, the Ottawa Citizen and The Huffington Post, among many others. She has been profiled by Time Magazine, More Magazine, Marie Claire and has appeared on NBC Nightly News, BBC World News Service, CBC, CTV, Global Television, WGN and NPR, to name just a few.
Dr. Nutt was recently named one of Canada’s 25 Transformational Canadians by the Globe and Mail, and has been recognized as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. Time Magazine has featured her as one of Canada’s Five Leading Activists. In July 2011, Dr. Nutt was appointed to the Order of Canada, Canada’s highest civilian honour, for her contributions to improving the plight of young people in the world’s worst conflict zones.
Samantha Nutt graduated summa cum laude from McMaster University, earned an M.Sc in public health with distinction from the University of London and 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. Dr. Nutt is the recipient of numerous honorary doctorates from universities in Canada and the USA in addition to being a staff physician at Women’s College Hospital and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto.
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The Price of Inaction
Damned Nations: Greed, Guns, Armies & Aid
Global Health
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The real harm of the global arms trade | Samantha Nutt
The War in Iraq: 15 Years Later – Samantha Nutt on The Iraq War Anniversary | NowThis
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