Keith MacMaster is a lecturer and Ph.D. Candidate at the Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University. He holds a Master of Law degree from Dalhousie and an MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business at Western University. He concentrates on legal issues in environmental finance for banking and ocean-based industries, especially working on problems of seabed mining. The lack of environmental and human rights data in companies’ disclosure documents lies at the heart of this research. This research aims to enable an environmentally and socially sustainable mining industry for the post-pandemic, low-carbon world. 

Keith has worked with EAC in the past, serving as a consultant on the Regional Assessment of Offshore Oil and Gas Exploratory Drilling East of Newfoundland and Labrador project. 

Before teaching, Keith led TD Bank’s carbon neutral program and environmental real estate portfolio. He practiced corporate and real estate law and is a licensed financial planner. Keith is originally from Cape Breton and now resides in Greenwich, Nova Scotia. He serves as Treasurer of the Cole Harbour Rural Heritage Society and is passionate about farming and environmental rights.