Director, International Centre for Northern Governance and Development, University of Saskatchewan (from July 1, 2013)

Senior Fellow, Macdonald-Laurier Institute
Co-Director, Aboriginal People and Natural Resource Use Project

Project Co-Leader, The Fourth World Project, Centre for International Governance Innovation (Waterloo), with Terry Mitchell

Associate, Social Innovation Generation, University of Waterloo

Member, Social Prosperity Wood Buffalo Steering Committee

Senior Editor, Northern Review

Member, Board of Directors, eBound Canada

Technical Advisor, A@SN Digital Media Project (Sioux Narrows-Nestor Falls, Ontario)

Advisory Board Member, Center for Innovation and Competition-based Development Studies, Boğaziçi University

Consultant – Aboriginal Rights and Land Claims, Regional and Constitutional Development, Post-Secondary Education for such clients as Government of British Columbia, Government of Canada, Government of New Zealand, Government of the Yukon, Indigenous Organizations in Australia – Northern Territory and Queensland, British Columbia, Yukon Territory and United Nations (Human Rights )

Research Co-Director – Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History http://canadianmysteries.ca/en/kcoates.php

Media Commentator – Radio, Television News, Newspapers

Documentary Film Production – Editor, Writer, Producer, Interviewee

Previous Positions and Activities

President, Japan Studies Association of Canada, 2007-2013

Visiting Professor, Institutes for Asian Research, University of British Columbia, January 2012.

Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Media Design, Keio University, Japan, February-March 2012.