Craig Kielburger

Craig Kielburger
Craig Kielburger at We Day Waterloo 2010 with his brother, Marc Kielburger, in the background
Born	(1982-12-17) December 17, 1982 (age 34) Thornhill, Ontario, Canada
Nationality	Canadian
Alma mater	Trinity College, University of Toronto (B.A.) Schulich School of Business, York University Kellogg School of Management (EMBA)
Occupation	Social entrepreneur
Notable work	Founded Free the Children and Me to We
Relatives	Marc Kielburger (brother)

Craig Kielburger, CM, MSM, OMC (born December 17, 1982) is a Canadian author, columnist, social entrepreneur, and activist for the rights of children. He is the co-founder, with his brother Marc Kielburger, of the Free the Children, an international development and youth empowerment organization; Me to We, a social enterprise, and We Day, an annual youth empowerment event. On April 11, 2008, he was named a Member of the Order of Canada by the Governor General of Canada.

Craig Kielburger was born in Thornhill, Ontario, Canada. He attended Blessed Scalabrini Catholic School, in Thornhill, which is where he did a school project which eventually gave birth to Free the Children, and Mary Ward Catholic Secondary School in Scarborough. He graduated with a degree in Peace and Conflict Studies from Trinity College at the University of Toronto. In 2009, he completed his Executive MBA at Schulich School of Business at York University and Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University as the dual-school program's youngest-ever graduate.

In 1995, when Craig Kielburger was 12 years old, Craig saw a headline in the Toronto Star newspaper that read “Battled child labour, boy, 12, murdered.” The accompanying story was about a young Pakistani boy named Iqbal Masih who was forced into bonded labour in a carpet factory at the age of four, became an international figurehead for the fight against child labour by 12 years old, and was murdered in 1995.