Ernie Regehr, OC is a Canadian peace researcher and expert in security and disarmament.[1] He co-founded Project Ploughshares, a peace research organization based in Waterloo, Ontario, with Murray Thomson in 1976 [2] and served as its Executive Director for thirty years.[3] Project Ploughshares is an ecumenical project supported by the Canadian Council of Churches.[4] Regehr has been a Canadian NGO representative and expert advisor at numerous international disarmament forums including UN Conferences on Small Arms.[1]
Regehr is currently a Research Fellow at the Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies at Conrad Grebel University College (Waterloo, Ontario) and The Simons Foundation (Vancouver, BC).[5] He also serves on the board of directors of the Africa Peace Forum in Kenya.[1]