Erik Eastaugh

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Erik Labelle Eastaugh (born 1979) is a member of the 2005 World University Debating Champion team from the University of Ottawa, and a former president of the Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate.

He won the world championship debating tournament held in Malaysia in 2005 with his partner Jamie Furniss, competing for the University of Ottawa School of Law. Eastaugh was also the third-ranked individual speaker at the tournament. A few weeks after the tournament, inspired in part by Furniss' decision to stay on in Southeast Asia to help with the tsunami relief effort, Eastaugh organized the 24-Hour Debate Challenge, which brought together debaters from across North America and raised over $10,000 for tsunami relief. The money was donated to Waves of Mercy, an ad hoc NGO based in Langkawi, Malaysia, which was created to deliver aid supplies from Malaysia to nearby disaster-struck Banda Aceh in Indonesia and for which Furniss was working as a volunteer. Waves of Mercy was especially effective since it operated outside the control of the Indonesian government, which was interfering with aid operations in Banda Aceh, a region with a strong separatist movement.

Eastaugh was later Deputy Chief Adjudicator of the World Championships in 2006, held at University College Dublin. Eastaugh is also a former president of the University of Ottawa English Debating Society and captain of the Varsity Men's Cross-Country team from 2002-2004. He received his B.A. and LL.L. degrees, both magna cum laude, from the University of Ottawa.

In 2006, competing on behalf of the University of Ottawa, Eastaugh was the second-ranked individual at the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot court. With over 800 participants from 156 universities, the Vis moot is the largest intervarsity moot court in the world.