George Vegh

Senior Fellow, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy

Adjunct Professor, Munk School and Faculty of Law

Biography

George Vegh is a recognized leader in Canadian energy regulation and governance. George has served as Chair of the Board of the Canada Energy Regulator and General Counsel of the Ontario Energy Board. He is a Senior Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy where he teaches Canadian Energy Policy, Security, Trade, and Climate Change, and is the Program Director of the Osgoode Hall Law School LL.M in Energy and Infrastructure Law. George has practiced energy law at leading national firms and has contributed extensively to policy debates, has testified before legislative committees, and advised governments in Canada and internationally.

Updated October 2025

Select publications

Towards the Creation of an Indigenous Energy Regulator, TMX Annual Line Wide Meeting of the Indigenous Advisory Monitoring Committee (2025)
Is the Era of Independent Economic Energy Regulation Over? (Northwinds Conference, 2025).
Emerging Frameworks for Energy Regulation (Chautauqua, New York, 2024).
The Energy Transition: New Approaches to Regulation (Public Policy Forum, Regulators Dialogue, November, 2022).
Energy Regulation and Net zero (Public Policy Forum, September, 2022).
Electrification: The Collaborative Future of Energy (June, 2022).
How to Improve Ontario Energy Forecasting, Ontario 360 (October, 2021).
Electricity Procurements in Ontario: Time for a New Approach, Ontario 360 (February, 2020).
The Regulatory Compact, presentation to Canadian Association of Members of Public Utility Tribunals Round Table (May, 2019)
Innovation in Regulation, presentation to Canadian Electricity Association (May, 2019)
Expert Testimony to Ontario Legislative Assembly Committee on Energy sector Governance under Bill 87 (April, 2019)
Report to the Chair of the Ontario Energy Board, Advisory Committee on Innovation (December, 2018)
Establishing Evidence-Based Analysis of Ontario’s Energy Procurement, Ontario 360, (April, 2018)
Investigating Energy Market Activity in Ontario, in The Guide to Energy Market Manipulation (Global Competition Review) (February, 2018).
Energy Governance in Ontario, A Report to the Ontario Energy Association and the Association of Power Producers of Ontario (November, 2017)
How Ontario can End the Cycle of Meddling in Electricity Markets, April, 2017 (Globe and Mail)
Setting Limits on Queen’s Park’s Power over Electricity Markets (CD Howe), (March, 2017)
Cap and Trade and Governance: Ontario energy agency could correct province's past policy mistakes, May, 2016 (Globe and Mail)
Improving Governance in the Ontario Electricity Sector (February, 2016, CD Howe)
Expert Testimony to Ontario Legislative Assembly Committee on Procurement and Siting (September, 2013)
Reconnecting Supply and Demand: How Improving Electricity Pricing Can Help Integrate a Changing Supply Mix, Increase Efficiency, and Empower Customers: Report of the Chair of the Electricity Market Forum (December, 2011)
“How Energy Institutions Set the Price for Electricity,” in Doug Reeve, Donald Dewees & Bryan Karney, Current Affairs – Perspectives on Electricity Policy for Ontario (University of Toronto Press, 2010)
The Green Energy and Economy Act: Green Energy Unbounded, University of Toronto Law Faculty Blog (February 25, 2009)
“A Watch Dog’s Limits” Editorial, Globe & Mail, January 30, 2008;
Advocacy Centre for Tenants – Ontario v. Ontario Energy Board: Public Utility Rate-Rate-Making: Economic Regulation or Taxation? Case Comment: (2008), 87 Can. Bar Review, 549.
“Is there a Doctrine of Canadian Public Utility Law?” (2007), 86 Can. Bar Rev. 319;
Electricity Competition in Ontario (1998), 16 Journal of Energy & Natural Resources Law 114
“The Characterization of Barriers to Interprovincial Trade under the Canadian Constitution,” (1996), 34 Osgoode Hall Law Journal 355;
Student Companion to Administrative Law (Toronto: Butterworths, 1996).
Does Quebec have the Right to Secede at International Law? (1995), 74 Canadian Bar Review 225 (co-authored with Neil Finkelstein and Camille Joly).
The Separation of Quebec and the Constitution of Canada (Toronto: York University Centre for Public Law and Public Policy, 1992) (co-authored with Neil Finkelstein)
Making the Law: The Courts and the Constitution (Toronto: Copp Clark Pitman, 1991) (co-authored with John T. Saywell).

Awards & recognition

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
Leadership roles on the OEB Chair’s Committee on Innovation, and the IESO Electricity Market Forum
Expert testimony to committees of the Ontario Legislative Assembly
Advised on regulatory structural reform in Kenya, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and Thailand
Chair of the Ontario Energy Association, Vice-Chair of the Association of Power Producers of Ontario
Leading industry task forces on Distribution Rate Regulation; Infrastructure Renewal; Distributed Generation; and Transmission Connection for Renewable Generation