Carol Anne Hilton

Hilton is Nuu-chah-nulth of the Hesquiaht nation on Vancouver Island.[1][2]

She obtained her master's in business administration from the UK's Hertfordshire University in 2004.[3]

Hilton is the author of Indigenomics: Taking a Seat at the Economic Table [4] which was shortlisted for a Donner Prize in 2022.[5] The title of the book comes from the #Indigenomics hashtag that she coined on Twitter in 2012.[6] The book addresses the common rhetoric and perception from non-Indigenous people that Indigenous people are recipients of government financial support, and critiques the "economic displacement" of Indigenous people.[2] Kevin Carmichael writing in the Financial Post calls it a "manifesto" and "revelatory", noting how it "forces non-Indigenous readers to confront shame and embarrassment over the systematic exclusion of founding peoples from the country’s economic life."[2] Carmichael comparers her writing that of Zambian economist Dambisa Moyo.[2] It was published by New Society Publishers.[2]

Hilton is the founder and the CEO of The Indigenomics Institute[7][8] and Transformation International (Indigenous social and economic development company).[1] She served on the Canadian Federal Economic Growth Council.[1]

As of 2018 she was the Director of the McGill University's Institute of the Study of Canada and also the National Canadian Community Economic Development Network. [1] She was also faculty at Simon Fraser University’s Community Economic Development Program and the faculty lead at the Banff Center’s Indigenous Business Program.[1]

Hilton lives in Victoria, British Columbia.[3]

• Indigenous peoples in Canada

• 2018 Canada's National Observer OpEd Indigenomics: on recognition and the uncomfortable space