Caleb Behn is Eh-Cho Dene and Dunne-Za from Treaty 8 territory in northeastern British Columbia. A lawyer by training (UVic Law, Environmental Law and Sustainability; called to the BC Bar in 2015), his work sits at the intersection of water, energy, and Indigenous law.
He is most recently the Chief Executive Officer of the BC First Nations Energy and Mining Council; previously he was the Lands Manager for West Moberly First Nations. Caleb spent six years in Ottawa as Special Advisor on Water to the Assembly of First Nations, Legal Policy Advisor to National Chief Perry Bellegarde, and later as Director of the Rights Sector at AFN. He has also served as Senior Researcher at the Centre for International Governance Innovation, was a founding member of the Decolonizing Water Research Collective, and is the subject of the documentary film Fractured Land.
Based in in his mother’s home community of West Moberly First Nations Caleb continues to hunt, fish, and harvest in Treaty 8, while supporting Elders and advancing projects at the interface of Indigenous law, academic research and technology, most recently with the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School and as a founding Advisory Board Member of the Indigenous Research Support Initiative at the University of British Columbia.
