George Vegh

George Vegh is a leading energy regulatory and governance adviser.  

He is a Senior Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy and the Director of the Masters Program in Energy and Infrastructure Law at Osgoode Hall Law School. 

George is Adjunct Professor of Energy Law and Regulatory Governance at the Munk School. He has also served as Adjunct Professor at the University of Calgary Law School, the University of Toronto Law School, and Osgoode Hall Law School, where he is also the Program Director of the Masters’ Program in Energy and Infrastructure Law.  

He is the incoming Chair at the Canada Energy Regulator (CER) where he provides strategic direction and advice to the organization.  He was previously General Counsel of the Ontario Energy Board (OEB) where he focused on developing innovative policy development processes.

George is a member of the bars of Ontario and Alberta and is consistently ranked as a leading lawyer in his field by Chambers, Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory, International Financial Law Review, American Lawyer, Lexpert, and the Legal 500.

He has contributed to energy policy development through providing expert testimony to committees of the Ontario Legislative Assembly, serving in leadership roles on the OEB Chair’s Committee on Innovation, and the IESO Electricity Market Forum. He has also advised on regulatory structural reform in Kenya, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and Thailand. 

George also served as an energy sector leader in his capacity as Chair of the Ontario Energy Association, Vice-Chair of the Association of Power Producers of Ontario, and heading industry task forces on Distribution Rate Regulation; Infrastructure Renewal; Distributed Generation; and Transmission Connection for Renewable Generation.