Each year at the Annual General Meeting, a new Board of Directors for the Canadian Student Debating Federation is elected by the representatives of the current member organizations. The Board is comprised of up to ten individuals and anyone nominated by a member organization can be elected to the Board. To ensure regional representation, the Board must contain at least one member from each of our four regions: the North (YK, NT, NU), the West (BC, AB, SK), the Centre (MB and ON), and the Atlantic (QC and the Maritimes) provided that willing candidates from each of these regions are available.

The membership elects a President, Director of French Language Debate and between five and eight other directors. Once elected, the Board has the responsibility for the appointment of officers, including Treasurer, Solicitor, Discipline Officer, Committee Chairs, Worlds Officer and Liaisons to external organizations as deemed necessary by the Board.

Throughout the year, the Board maintains contact with member organizations, coordinates with the upcoming Seminar Host, allocates funding under the McLeese Opportunities Fund and attends to administrative details required by the CSDF.

Past Presidents listing can be found here!

2024-2025 Board:

Chris George	President	QC	cgeorge@csdf-fcde.ca
Brian Casey	Secretary	NS	bcasey@csdf-fcde.ca
Rob McLeese	Director, McLeese Family; Speech and Debate Canada	ON	rmcleese@csdf-fcde.ca
Alexander Beaumont	Director of French Debate	QC	abeaumont@csdf-fcde.ca
Arghya Dev Biswas Aryan	Director	BC
	Director

2024-2025 Officers:

Vinayak Mishra	Solicitor
Rudi Lof	Fundraising Officer	rlof@csdf-fcde.ca
Chris George	Discipline Officer	cgeorge@csdf-fcde.ca

2024-2025 Worlds Committee:

Joshua Judah	Committee Chair	teamcanada@csdf-fcde.ca
Jason Hong		teamcanada@csdf-fcde.ca
Alexander Beaumont	Board Liaison Worlds Voting Officer	teamcanada@csdf-fcde.ca
Leora Diakuw		teamcanada@csdf-fcde.ca
Rudi Lof	Fundraising Officer	teamcanada@csdf-fcde.ca
Gab Duguay Ella Waxman		teamcanada@csdf-fcde.ca teamcanada@csdf-fcde.ca
** Brent Schmidt ** Arsalan Ghaemi	Co-Coach Co-Coach