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Staff, Associates, and Board of DirectorsParlimentary CentreSenator Andreychuk was educated at the University of Saskatchewan graduating in 1966 with a Bachelor of Arts degree and, in 1967, with a Bachelor of Laws degree; thereafter practicing law in Saskatchewan. In 1976, Senator Andreychuk was appointed a Judge of the Saskatchewan Provincial Court, at which time she set up a Family Court in Regina under the jurisdiction of the Provincial Court. She served two terms as the Chancellor of the University of Regina. In 1987, Senator Andreychuk was named High Commissioner to Kenya, Uganda, Ambassador to Somalia, the Comores and in 1990 Ambassador to Portugal. Concurrently, she served as Canadian Representative to the United Nations Human Rights Commission and the United Nations Environment Program. In 1993 Senator Andreychuk was called to the Senate of Canada where she has served on numerous committees including chairing the Senate Standing Committee on Human Rights. Her other senate committees are: Foreign Affairs and Intercontinental Trade; Legal and Constitutional Affairs; Rules and Parliamentary Privilages; Conflict of Interest; and the Committee in the Review of the Anti-terrorism Act. Senator Andreychuk is a recipient of the Y.M.C.A. Fellowship of Honour, the Vanier Outstanding Young Canadian Award, the Centennial Medal and the Regina Y.M.CA. Women’s Award. In 1993, she was granted a Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, by the University of Regina. Senator Andreychuk had served as the International Law and Human Rights convenor for the Parliamentarians for Global Action for the past five years, a role which led her to lead a worldwide coalition of Parliamentarians dedicated to the ratification and implementation of the Rome Treaty and the establishment of the International Criminal Court. She is presently the convenor of the Population and Substainable Development Program. Senator Andreychuk is Co-Chair of the Canada-Africa Parliamentary Association and member of the Canadian Committee on Women, Peace and Security and serves on many international committees and organizations. After graduating from Queen’s University in 1968 with an Honours degree in Political Studies and Sociology, Bill went with CUSO to the Amazon region of Colombia as a volunteer teacher of English and Mathematics. He returned to Canada in September of 1970 to pursue a Master’s program in Political Science at the University of Western Ontario. In the summer of 1971 he successfully completed the program and was awarded a Master’s Degree with first class honours. Shortly thereafter he was offered a Canada Council grant to pursue PhD studies in the U.K. At almost the same time CUSO approached him and offered him the position of Program Coordinator for Colombia and Ecuador. He chose to return to Colombia to take charge of 52 volunteers working in the health, education and rural development sectors of Colombia. This was an exciting and tumultuous time for CUSO when there were many requests from countries for CUSO involvement and much self-examination about such an organization’s role in the whole process of development. During this period Bill was asked to spend two months in West Africa assessing the advisability and viability of CUSO’s responding to a request to open a program in Liberia. After three more years in Colombia Bill returned to Canada in the summer of 1974 and settled in Vancouver. During his time on the west coast he worked for Canada World Youth as Assistant Coordinator of the program in British Colombia. He was then hired by the Federal Department of Manpower and Immigration as a Local Initiatives Program (LIP) Project Officer. This was Bill’s first taste of working with politicians since LIP program was organized by federal constituencies and involved the active participation of local members of parliament. In the fall of 1975 Bill participated in a nation-wide competition organized by the House of Commons to recruit new Committee Clerks. He was one of the successful candidates and moved to Ottawa where he began work for the Committee’s Directorate in February 1976. In the summer of 1977 CIDA recruited Bill to supervise a $13.5 million soft loan to Colombia to finance one of several integrated rural development projects being undertaken by the Colombian government in collaboration with the World Bank and the Inter American Development Bank. It was a challenge that he couldn’t resist, so back he went to Colombia until August of 1980. On his return to Canada he rejoined the House of Commons as a Committee Clerk. In 1986 Bill was promoted to the first level of management as Deputy Principal Clerk, Committees. He took charge of the Committee’s Directorate as Principal Clerk in 1987. During his time with Committees he participated in many programs that the House of Commons offered to politicians and staff of newly emerging democracies in Eastern Europe, Africa and Asia. This included a two week consultancy on committees and committee work at the National Assembly of Cambodia in Phnom Penh. After holding a number of other senior positions at the House of Commons, Bill was appointed Clerk of the House in July of 2000. He retired in November 2005. Mr. Crane is a senior member of Gowlings' Advocacy Law Group where he practises in constitutional, administrative and aboriginal law. He appears as counsel before the Supreme Court of Canada, the Federal Court, the Ontario Courts and federal regulatory agencies. He has also worked extensively in the negotiation of native land claims and related litigation, and commercial arbitration and mediation. A frequent speaker at legal seminars and conferences, Mr. Crane has co-authored a text entitled Supreme Court of Canada Practice with Henry Brown, QC. He has chaired Canadian Bar Association Committees on Reform of Parliament, the Federal Judiciary, Reform of the Federal Court, the Supreme Court of Canada and the Reform of Civil Justice. Called to the Bar in Ontario in 1962, Mr. Crane was appointed Queen's counsel in 1977 and a certified specialist in Civil Litigation in 1988. He received his law degree from the University of British Columbia. Prior to joining Gowlings Mr. Crane served as a foreign service officer with the Department of External Affairs. He also was a lecturer at the University of British Columbia. For 15 years he acted as consultant for the Law Reform Commission of Canada and has consulted for various other government departments since 1980. Mr. Crane is a member of numerous professional associations, including the Advocates' Society, the Canadian Bar Association, International Commission of Jurists (Canadian Section) and he is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. His community work includes a long involvement with the Canadian Mental Health Association and the Parliamentary Centre. LGen Andrew Leslie was born in December 1957, and his initial schooling was conducted in Canada, the USA, France, Cyprus, and Switzerland, where he became bilingual. His family has a tradition of military service and he joined the 30th Field Artillery Regiment while at Ottawa University. While a student in England he was attached to the Honorable Artillery Company. In 1980 he attended the International Peace Academy UN Staff Seminar in Vienna, Austria. In 1981, he transferred to the regular force and initially served with the 1st Regiment Royal Canadian Horse Artillery in Germany, the regiment that - like his father before him – he eventually commanded. He has completed the British Army Troop Commanders and Tactics course, French Army Commando training, the hand-to-hand combat course, and the combat intelligence course. Other training includes the infantry company commander's course, a variety of artillery courses, Army and the Forces staff colleges, training in project management and the parachute course. After a succession of field tours with mechanized and airborne combat units in Germany, Cyprus and Canada and command appointments up to regimental level, in early 1995 he was promoted to Colonel and sent to the Former Yugoslavia as Chief of Staff Sector South (Brigade Level). He was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal for his actions under fire during the fighting for Knin in August 1995. He then became the Chief of Staff and Deputy Commander of UNCRO (Division level), and finally Chief of Staff of UNPF (Mission level). Following the UN hand-over to NATO forces, MGen Leslie returned to Western Canada as the Area Chief of Staff in 1996, and served in that capacity during the Manitoba floods of Spring 1997. In July 1997 he became the Commander of 1 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group (1CMBG), an infantry-heavy combat formation based in Western Canada, where the focus was on live-fire combined arms training. In early 1998, 1CMBG deployed to the South shore of Montreal to assist with ice-storm disaster relief operations, followed by an almost continuous cycle of Battle Group and Brigade exercises. That same year he was awarded the Order of Military Merit. In 1999 he was promoted Brigadier-General while a student on the Advanced and National Securities Studies Courses in Toronto. In 2000 he was appointed the J6 of the Canadian Forces, responsible for commanding the communications field groups and regiments, the signals and electronic intelligence functions and supporting the various computer networks used by the Forces. In 2002 he became the Commander Land Force Central Area, responsible for one regular and three reserve Brigades as well as several bases and training establishments. LGen Leslie was appointed Commander Task Force Kabul and Deputy Commander of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan as of June 2003, and on his return he was awarded the Meritorious Service Cross. He then became the Assistant Chief of the Land Staff. In Fall 2004 to June 2005 he was a full-time PhD student at the Royal Military College in Kingston. In June 2005, he was appointed Director General Strategic Planning in Ottawa. In June 2006, he was promoted to his current rank and appointed Chief of the Land Staff. LGen Leslie's education includes several degrees and he has studied in Ottawa, London, Toronto, Kingston and at the Harvard Business School. His interests are military history, political science, running and alpine skiing. The Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC) is the national association of universities and degree-granting colleges in Canada that represents its institutional members at home and abroad. As Vice-President of International Affairs of AUCC, Karen McBride is responsible for providing leadership and direction to the association’s efforts to promote the internationalization of Canadian higher education and research. The International Affairs branch’s activities encompass policy development and advocacy, member services, communications, relations with key government and non-government stakeholders in Canada and abroad, as well as the management of a broad range of international programs funded by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) or multilateral organizations involving Canadian universities and their partner universities overseas. Ms McBride works with a team of some thirty professional and support staff and in close consultation with university presidents and AUCC’s President and CEO. As part of AUCC’s senior management team, she is also responsible for playing a role in strategy development and administration at an organizational level. Ms McBride has developed an in-depth understanding of the issues related to universities’ international engagement as a result of her work at AUCC since 1994, as well as her previous work experience, which included providing research services to parliamentary committees and associations in her capacity as a Research Associate at the Parliamentary Centre, a not-for-profit organization. Ms McBride received a Master of Arts in International Affairs from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University in Ottawa and a Bachelor of Arts in History and French from the University of Western Ontario. David Mitchell became Vice-President of University Relations at the University of Ottawa in September 2002. Previously, he had served as Vice-President of External Relations at Simon Fraser University from 1997 to 2002, where he was responsible for fundraising, alumni relations, media and public relations, and government affairs. SFU raised over $65 million under his direction. David Mitchell's diverse career path has included senior positions in both the public and private sectors. He gained experience in parliamentary procedure and legislative processes as Deputy Clerk of the Saskatchewan Legislature and also served as an Archivist and Editor at the Provincial Archives of B.C. Mr. Mitchell also has significant private sector business experience, having held executive positions within western Canadian resource industries, including vice-president of marketing and general manager of industrial relations. Serving as a Member of the British Columbia Legislature from 1991 to 1996, David Mitchell was a watchdog on a broad range of issues including resource management, labour relations, advanced education, and parliamentary reform. Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Public Works and Government Services and for the Pacific Gateway and the Vancouver-Whistler Olympics George Perlin is a Fellow and Professor Emeritus in the School of Policy Studies, Queen’s University where he was founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Democracy. He is Director of the Ukraine-Canada Building Democracy Project, funded by CIDA, which
Perlin has taught courses on Canadian democracy in the Political Studies Department at Queen’s and the University of British Columbia. He currently teaches courses on governance and international assistance to democratic development in the MPA program at Queen’s. He is also a Fellow in International Democratic Development with the Institute for Research on Public Policy and is directing a research project for IRPP on international assistance to democratic development. He is co-editor and co-author of Osnovii Demokratii (Fundamentals of Democracy) (2002 and 2005) Kyiv, Ukraine: I.B. Press).
Robert Miller is the former President and CEO of the Parliamentary Centre. Mr. Miller was educated at the University of Western Ontario and Duke University, where he undertook studies in political philosophy and comparative politics. He spent two years conducting research and teaching at the University of the Philippines where he studied Filipino political thought. On his return to Canada, he assumed a research position at the Library of Parliament, specialising in international relations. On joining the Parliamentary Centre in 1978, Mr. Miller commenced an extended period of work as research advisor to the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Commons. During this period, he wrote and oversaw the preparation of a series of major committee studies on Canadian foreign policy, including North- South policy, Canada’s relations with Latin America, the peace process in Central America and Canadian aid policy. During the same period, he served as a senior advisor on two comprehensive parliamentary studies of Canada’s international relations. Mr. Miller has written extensively on Canadian foreign policy particularly as it relates to governance, democratisation and peacebuilding. Among the major studies, which he has written or edited: Canada and Democratic Development (1985), Governance and IDRC (1989), Aid as Peacemaker (1994) and Missions for Peace (1998). More recently, Mr. Miller has been developing a set of indicators for parliamentary performance and preparing the Centre for an increased role in post-conflict parliamentary strengthening. Mr. Miller has led the Parliamentary Centre in establishing its reputation as an innovative and effective organisation in international parliamentary development. Return to Staff, Associates, and Board of Directors Peter C. Dobell, C.M., the Founding Director of the Centre, established the Parliamentary Centre in 1968 with the goal of improving the efficacy of Parliament. In the course of the two following decades, he enlarged the reach of the Centre by setting up the Centre for Legislative Exchange in 1971, launched the magazine Parliamentary Government in 1978 and established the Parliament, Business and Labour Trust in 1986. Mr. Dobell now devotes his attention solely to observing and commenting on developments in the Canadian Parliament. Mr. Dobell holds a BA in history from Toronto University and BA, MA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University. He joined the Department of External Affairs in 1952 and served in Ottawa, Czechoslovakia (1954-57) and the United Nations (1960-65). Mr. Dobell is the author of many studies and books including: Canada's Search for New Roles; Canada in World Affairs 1971-73; Parliament and the Control of Public Expenditure commissioned by the Royal Commission on Financial Management and Accountability; Comments on Parliamentary Reform prepared for the Royal Commission on the Economic Union and Development Prospects for Canada; Anger at the System in collaboration with Byron Berry. Recent writings include the backgrounder entitled Making the Minority Parliament Work. Mr. Dobell is a Member of the Trilateral Commission and a Member of the Order of Canada. He has been on the Board of the Institute for Research on Public Policy since its foundation in 1972. Return to Staff, Associates, and Board of Directors
Amelita Armit is President and CEO of the Parliamentary Centre. Mrs. Armit joined the Centre in 2004 as Program Director for Asia and Eastern Europe and subsequently, became Vice-President, Programs. Prior to this, Mrs. Armit had a distinguished public service career, including 20 years as an Assistant Deputy Minister in the Canadian federal and Alberta provincial governments, where she led initiatives on public service reform, the restructuring of health and social services delivery, the establishment of merit-based civil service systems and the development of policy frameworks for strategic planning, international and intergovernmental affairs and human resource management. Return to Staff, Associates, and Board of Directors Rasheed Draman joined the Parliamentary Centre in 2003 and assumed his current position as Director of Africa Programs in June 2006. He is currently based at the Centre’s Regional Office in Accra, Ghana. He holds a PhD in Political Science from Carleton University and previously worked as a Consultant for the Africa Branch and the Multilateral Programs Branch (Peacebuilding Unit) of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). He also previously taught courses on Development and Conflict at Carleton University. His research interests include the links between poverty and insecurity; governance and conflict prevention, issues on which he written extensively. In previous positions at the Centre, he worked first a Program Advisor and then as Program Coordinator during which he established the African Poverty Reduction Network. Return to Staff, Associates, and Board of Directors Charity Wakaba is advisor to the Parliamentary Centre’s anticorruption programs. She joined the Centre in 2003 holding a joint M.A. in political science and international relations from the Institute of Political Studies (Sciences-Po) of Lyon and the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs. Born in Kenya and fluent in both French and Swahili, she has worked with over twenty African parliaments. Return to Staff, Associates, and Board of Directors
Sandra de Moura joined the Parliamentary Centre in January 2004 as a Program Officer for Africa with the focus of most of her work being on the African Parliamentary Poverty Reduction Network, a network that promotes greater cross-Africa dialogue among committees involved in poverty-reduction related issues and creates opportunities for improving effective implementation of poverty reduction programs, particularly through local level monitoring with community-based civil society groups. Ms. De Moura holds an MA in Rural Development from the University of Sussex, with particular interest on poverty reduction, public participation processes and sustainable development. She also holds an Honour BA in Communication Studies from the Université de Montréal. Prior to joining the Parliamentary Centre, Ms. De Moura worked for the French-Canadian Youth Federation as a project coordinator for the International Youth Network and has also worked in Executive offices at both the federal and municipal level. She is fluent in French, English, Portuguese and Spanish and has lived, studied or worked in Portugal, France, the UK and Mali. Return to Staff, Associates, and Board of Directors Ryan Barker is committed to justice for the people of Africa, and inspired by their struggles to make political actors and institutions more responsive to their demands. As the Africa team's senior program officer, his skills in the practice of parliamentary development are grounded in experience in a dozen countries. In Kenya, Ethiopia and Sudan, where he has spent the most time since joining the Parliamentary Centre in 2003, he has designed, delivered and reported on numerous activities. An Albertan alumnus of Lester B. Pearson College of the Pacific, Ryan earned his Master's degree at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs. Return to Staff, Associates, and Board of Directors Vincent Mugisha joined the Parliamentary Centre as Program Officer, Africa Region in March 2009. Prior to this position he worked in Benin as Senior Program Manager for Human and Social Development with Catholic Relief Services, USA. Based in Washington, DC for 6 years, he has also worked as Program Manager for Civil Society, Training and Capacity Building mainly serving the Africa region. He has managed several projects mainly funded by USAID, US Department of State, US Department of Labor, and US Department of Agriculture in domains as diverse as women`s leadership and economic empowerment; anti-trafficking policy advocacy; peace building and community reconciliation, education for all, school feeding, and youth empowerment. He is multilingual with proficiency in English, French, German, Spanish, Swahili and Portuguese. He holds an MA in Sustainable Development Studies from the School for International Training in Vermont, US, another MA in Language Education; and a BA in Economics and Education from the University of Saarland in Germany, and Makerere University in Uganda. He also holds an Ontario High School Teaching License. Return to Staff, Associates, and Board of Directors Gifty Adika currently works as an Information Resource Coordinator for Parliamentary Centre on the CIDA funded Ghana Parliamentary Committee Support Project (GPCSPII). With extensive experience in teaching, research and information management she promotes innovative need-based programs and initiatives that contribute to the development of training modules and knowledge systems to enhance the capacity of Members of Parliament and Parliamentary Staff for effective Parliamentary democracy. Gifty Adika was an ODA scholar (1992-1994), and a Fulbright Scholar (1997-1999). She possesses an MA in Information Management ( Thames Valley, UK.); an M.PHIL., in Library Studies ( Legon, Ghana); and a Master of Library Service ( Rutgers, U.S.A.). Prior to her engagement with the Parliamentary Centre she was a full-time lecturer in Information Studies for nine years at the University of Ghana. Gifty Adika is also a volunteer and the Chairperson of the Ghana Information Network for Knowledge Sharing (GINKS). She has worked as a consultant for a number of organizations including CODE, IDEG, CSIR, UNESCO and the World Bank. Her area of interest is knowledge management for development. Return to Staff, Associates, and Board of Directors Mr. Adams Fusheini joined the Parliamentary Centre in Jan, 2005, as Information Resource Coordinator with the Ghana Parliamentary Committee Support Project II. Mr Adams works to meet information needs of the six key poverty reduction related Committees of Parliament supported under the Project. This includes responsive information dissemination to the committees, facilitating their access to relevant information on socio-economic policy and poverty reduction relevant issues, as well preparing Issues Papers on topical poverty reduction policy issues. efore then he taught mathematics and geography at the Secondary School level for over four years, and then worked briefly as a research assistant and team leader on GES/USAID Quality Improvement in Primary Schools (QUIPS) project where he led on project implementation across sites in Northern Ghana. As a Netherlands Fellowship Programme holder he was a participant at the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague (2003), where he graduated with M.A. in Development Studies, specializing in Agricultural and Rural Development. He also holds Bachelor of Arts Degree in Geography and Resource Development from the University of Ghana, Legon. Mr. Adams reflections are on institutional response to national poverty reduction policies (PRSPs), as well as research interest on political economy of poverty in Africa, especially on agrarian change, poverty and national development. Return to Staff, Associates, and Board of Directors Anthony Tsekpo joined the Parliamentary Centre in December 2006 as a Budget Expert working to establish a Budget and Finance Unit in Ghana’s Parliamentary Service. He obtained a PhD in Development Economics, at the Development and Project Planning Centre (now Bradford Centre for International Development), University of Bradford,-in the United Kingdom. Prior to joining the Parliamentary Centre team in Ghana he was a Lecturer and a Research Fellow at ISSER, University of Ghana. He has been teaching courses in public finance, resource allocation and project appraisal to Development Studies Classes at the University of Ghana. His current research interests include public expenditure management and resource mobilization, and labor markets and employment in Ghana. He has worked as consultant for a number of organizations including the ILO, UNIDO, UNDP, OICI ( Ghana) and the Ghana Trades Union Congress. Return to Staff, Associates, and Board of Directors
Thomas Ayinbila, graduated from the the University of Ghana in 1999 with a BSc. Degree in business administration.I have been involved in financial accounting and audit for the past 7 years. I have had engagements with both commercial enterprises and NGOs. My focus has been to provide efficient and sound financial support to enable organizations better plan and ensure optimum use of resources. I have work at Degusa AG, Project Concern International ( Ghana) and Cereal Investments Company ( Ghana), all internation organisations. I am currently a student of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Ghana. Return to Staff, Associates, and Board of Directors
Francois Desruisseaux joined the Parliamentary Centre, as interim Coordinator to the Haitian Parliamentary Support Project, in the Spring of 2007, before moving on to Khartoum to take on the challenging position of Programme Manager to the Sudanese Peacebuilding and Strengthening of Parliamentary Institutions Programme, in October of the same year. Civil Engineering Technologist, Mr. Desruisseaux has also completed Undergraduate studies in Administration at the Université du Québec. In the Canadian Forces from 1984 till 1998, consecutively as a Healthcare Administrator and Military Engineer, he has namely served on a United Nations Peacekeeping Mission (UNPROFOR) in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1992-1993. Mr. Desruisseaux has subsequently occupied a series of progressively responsible humanitarian, democracy and governance posts in the fields of management, support and coordination in such natural disaster prone and post-conflict affected places as Kosovo, Guinea-Bissau, Macedonia, Iraq, the Sudan, Indonesia and Haiti. During this period he has worked for international organisations such as the IOM International Organisation for Migration, the OSCE Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the UNJLC United Nations Joint Logistics Centre, the UNICEF as well as through Elections Canada sponsored international electoral monitoring missions. Return to Staff, Associates, and Board of Directors Valentina Tetteh is the Administrative Assistant of the Parliamentary Centre APRO. She is responsible for contributing administrative support to the overall activities of the Africa Poverty Reduction Office in Accra, Ghana. Her roles include organizing logistical details related to specific project activities, and providing support to the Director and program staff and organizing information management within the Africa office. Ms. Tetteh before joining the Parliamentary Centre in May 2007, was the Information Manager of the Ghana National Commission on Culture, specifically in charge of the Commission’s website. She holds a M. A. in Archival Studies (2004), a B. A. in French from the University of Cape Coast (2001) a Diploma (Diplôme Supérieur d’Etudes de Franç ais from the Université Cheick Anta Diop de Dakar, Senegal. (2000) and a Cert. ‘A’ Teacher’s Certificate. She has taught French under the Ghana Education Service for 11years. Her interest is in the area of Information management (records and documentation). Return to Staff, Associates, and Board of Directors Nansata Yakubu currently works as the Parliament and Conflict Expert on the Centre’s project; ‘Strengthening the Capacity of the ECOWAS Parliament to Prevent and Manage Conflict’.. Nansata was a fellow of the ICTJ/IJR Transitional Justice Program in collaboration with University of Cape Town, South Africa in 2003. She possesses an MA in International Affairs, (LECIA, University of Ghana, 2001); BA in Study of Religions (University of Ghana, 1999) and a Diploma in Transitional Justice (ICTJ/UCT, 2003). Prior to her engagement with the Parliamentary Centre, she worked with the Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO Ghana), as the Programme Manager for the Disability Programme Area. She has also worked in the Program Coordinating, Monitoring and Evaluation Unit at the Office of the President as a Policy Analyst ( Castle, Ghana); Local Governance Officer with Government Accountability Improves Trust Program (GAIT II, USAID funded) and the Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) a research think tank as a Program Officer among others. Nansata has varied expertise, including Peace and Conflict Resolution paradigms, dynamics and dimensions; Transitional Justice Mechanisms; Programme/Project Planning; Minority Rights and Development; Facilitation skills; Disability and Development; Policy Formulation, Monitoring and Evaluation; Local governance and grass roots participation in development; Parliaments, Research and Computer Skills. Return to Staff, Associates, and Board of Directors
AmericasJohn Wood joined the Parliamentary Centre in November 2006 as Program Manager Haiti and the Americas. He is primarily responsible for overseeing the CIDA-funded Haiti Parliamentary Support Project as well as strengthening program development in the Americas. Prior to his arrival at the Centre, Mr Wood occupied senior positions in CIDA and executive positions in the Organization of American States as well as in a Multilateral Development Bank. His responsibilities included planning, design, management and evaluation of bilateral, trilateral and multilateral cooperation not only with Canadian institutions but also between countries of the Americas. In addition he has also occupied policy and program analyst positions in the Treasury Board and Privy Council Office. Mr. Wood has extensive experience in the planning and evaluation of democratic development and governance programs. Mr Wood holds a Masters in International Relations from Carleton University and is fluent in English, French and Spanish. Return to Staff, Associates, and Board of Directors Marie-Edith Hilaire is currently the Program Officer for the CIDA-funded Haiti Parliamentary Support Project. Marie-Edith Hilaire holds a Master in Public Administration as an in International manager from Ecole Nationale d’Administration Publique (E.N.A.P.), Montréal. Her thesis is focusing on technology transfer as the mean and main focus to develop a proper strategy to build capacity in developing countries. Prior to joining the Parliamentary centre, she participated actively conducting the evaluation and writing as a professional researcher, at the CREXE team, the evaluation report on McGill University Human resources training program for Health Canada. In Bombardier she was a project coordinator in Quality insurance and became a Six Sigma buyer. In SNC-Lavalin, member of the board as the bid Responsible, she was in charge of aid development projects conducting project teams of engineers. She has extensive experience in coordinating projects deliverables and infrastructures. She holds an Architectural and Engineer degree from the Faculty of Sciences, University of Haiti. Marie-Edith is fluent in French, English and Spanish, has a functional knowledge in German. Return to Staff, Associates, and Board of Directors Andryse Albert joined the Parliamentary Centre in February 2007. She is currently working as the administrative officer for the Haiti Parliamentary Support Project. As such, she is responsible in assisting her team with the logistical, financial and administrative aspects of the project. Moreover, she supports the coordinator in the planning and follow-up of project activities. Ms. Albert holds a diploma of accounting from CAINFO and a diploma in sociology from the Faculty of Science and Humanities of the State University of Haiti.Return to Staff, Associates, and Board of Directors
Asia and Eastern EuropeSonja Vojnovic is the Centre’s Coordinator, Corporate Development, responsible for strategic development and building partnerships. Previously, she was Program Coordinator for Asia and Eastern Europe. She joined the Parliamentary Centre in 2001 as Program Officer for Eastern Europe. Since then, she has been involved in the design, preparation, and implementation of a number of the Centre’s programs and activities in Asia, Russia, and Southeast Europe. Sonja’s primary area of interest is in strengthening human resources management in parliament. Sonja holds an MA in Russian and European Studies from Carleton University. Her MA research paper was an historical analysis of Russian-Serb relations. Sonja also holds a BA (Hons.) in history and Russian, with a minor in political science, from McGill University. Her interests in parliamentary development and good governance, especially in Eastern and Central Europe and the former Soviet Union, are wide-ranging and include nationalism, gender politics, foreign policy, and anti-corruption. Sonja speaks English, French, and Serbo-Croatian fluently and Russian at the conversational level. Return to Staff, Associates, and Board of Directors Ivo Balinov is Senior Program Officer responsible for the Centre´s Programs in Eastern Europe and Asia. He joined the Parliamentary Centre as a Program Assistant for Eastern Europe in 2002. Since then he has been involved in the design, preparation and implementation of a number of projects and project activities, on a range of issues, including parliaments’ role in the budget process, parliamentary oversight, financial, human resource and administrative management in parliament, legislative planning and drafting, rural development. From 2004-2008, Ivo was responsible for the management of the Centre’s Accountability Strengthening Program in Russia. He is currently supporting the implementation of the Canada-China Legislative Cooperation Project while also maintaining a focus on Eastern Europe. Ivo holds an MA degree in European and Russian Studies from Carleton University, Ottawa, as well as an MA degree in International Affairs from the University of National and World Economy, Sofia, Bulgaria. During the period of his studies, he focused on various aspects of post-1989 democratic development of East European states. While at Carleton University, he played a key role in the conceptualization and the establishment of the Canadian Forum on Southeast Europe - an initiative aimed at discussing various aspects of the development of South East Europe and Canada's involvement in the region. Ivo is fluent in Bulgarian, Russian and Macedonian.Return to Staff, Associates, and Board of Directors MOM Sokhayouk : graduate from law school in 1974 ( Phnom-Penh Law University ). 1969 : Graduate from Hotel School Management in Strasbourg , France. 1970-73 : ADM and Personel Director at a state company of hotel and tourism . 1973-75 General Secretary of the same company . April 1975- 79 : Under Khmer rouge regime . June 1979 vice chairperson of the state company of hotel and restaurant. 1984-end 1989: Dpty head of the department of the planning and international cooperation of the Office of the Council of Ministers and Government Secretary of the Cuban -Cambodian Cooperation on economic, scientific, social and cultural. From 1990-1994 ; lived in Calgary, Canada. 1994-97 : Personel Director and Executive assistant of the Cambodia Development Research Instute. 1997-2000 : Assistant to the Director General of the Apsara Authority ( National authority for the protection of Angkor Wat and temples in the Angkor wat area) . Mid 2000-- Jan 2001 : Deputy Director and acting director of the Legal Avisory group of the Senate . Feb. 2002 to present : Deputy Manager of CCLSP. Return to Staff, Associates, and Board of Directors Patricia Rocheleau joined the Parliamentary Centre in May 2006 in the capacity of Administrative Officer for the East European, Cambodia and Asia Programs. As such, she is responsible in assisting her team with the logistical and administrative aspects of these programs. Patricia holds a Travel & Tourism Diploma from Le College Mérici in Québec City, with a specialization in Project and Event Management. She also obtained a Certificate from the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières in Small Groups Intervention and Coordination. She brings the Centre over a decade of Travel, Event Management and Customer Service experience. Return to Staff, Associates, and Board of Directors FIPAEmmanuelle Pelletier joined the Parliamentary Centre in September 2004 as Program Coordinator for the Inter-Parliamentary Forum of the Americas (FIPA). In this capacity, Ms. Pelletier coordinates the Technical Secretariat of FIPA and organizes meetings which bring together parliamentarians from across the Americas to discuss issues of common interest. Emmanuelle Pelletier obtained an MA in International Relations from Laval University in 2003, with particular interest in social and political aspects of the Summits of the Americas process. Prior to joining the Parliamentary Centre, she worked at the Permanent Mission of Canada to the Organization of American States in Washington. Ms. Pelletier speaks English, French, Spanish and Portuguese. She also holds a Graduate Diploma in Latin American Studies (Institut des Hautes Études de l’Amérique latine, Paris, 2000) and a BA Honours in Psychology (McGill University, 1998). Return to Staff, Associates, and Board of Directors Finance and AdministrationLaurie Groulx is Financial Assistant at the Centre. Her focus is on the financial management and contracts compliance aspects of project implementation. Ms Groulx has a diverse background of financial experience including over 10 years in the management of royalties' contracts for a high-tech corporation. Return to Staff, Associates, and Board of Directors Lola Giraldo is the Web and Information Coordinator. She is responsible for the coordination of the Parliamentary Centre website, the Parliamentary Networks websites (FIPA, GOPAC and APRN) and the coordination of the Management Information System project. Prior to assuming her current position, she worked as a consultant for the Inter-Parliamentary Forum of the Americas (FIPA) developing the Virtual Parliament project. Mrs. Giraldo has also developed websites for the Global Organization of Parliamentarians Against Corruption (GOPAC) and the African Parliamentarians Against Corruption (APNAC) and undertook a redesign of the Parliamentary Centre website. Mrs. Giraldo holds a Systems Engineering degree from the Universidad Autonoma of Manizales, Colombia. She has extensive experience in the planning and delivering of Information Technology projects and training programs. She is fluent in Spanish and English. AssociatesHon. John W. Bosley, P.C., B.A is a Senior Associate of the Parliamentary Centre. In 1996-1997, Mr. Bosley was appointed Skelton-Clark Fellow, Centre for International Relations, Queens University, Kingston, Canada. His area of research was Developing Democracy in LDCs. In 1996 he was appointed by UNDP and ten Donor countries as Senior Advisor to the two Houses of Parliament of Ethiopia. The initial six-month appointment has been extended at the request of the Speakers. His responsibilities include budget preparation and review, training and selection of consultants; oversight and implementation of US$1.5 million Capacity Development project for UNOPS. As a Senior Associate of the Parliamentary Centre since 1992, Mr. Bosley has conducted assessments for and/or provided advice and assistance to the Legislatures of Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Chad, Benin, Lebanon and South Africa, including seminars and training for MPs and Legislative personnel. Mr. Bosley was a Member of Parliament from 1979 to 1993. From 1979 to1980, he was Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister. From 1988 to 1993, Mr. Bosley was Chairman of the Standing Committee on External Affairs and International Trade and Chairman, Sub-Committee on Trade. From 1984 to 1987, he was Speaker of the House of Commons. From 1989 to 1993, he was a Founding Member and V.P., OSCE Parliamentary Assembly. Return to Staff, Associates, and Board of Directors Jacques Sabourin is a Senior Associate with the Parliamentary Centre specializing in Parliamentary Management and Human Resources Development. He has carried out projects such as a Committee Baseline Study on Committees of the Parliament of Ethiopia, leading an international seminar on Strategic Planning for parliamentary administrators of developing countries and writing articles on different subjects relating to parliamentary management issues. Mr. Sabourin has held diverse positions throughout his career, as a teacher in Ontario and the Ivory Coast and Programme Director in Language Training with the Public Service Commission of Canada. Mr. Sabourin has a range of experience with the operations of Canada's Parliament where, during his career at the House of Commons, he held senior administrative positions including Director of Parliamentary Publications and Distribution; Director-General of Parliamentary Operations; Director-General of Support and Information Systems; Director-General of Human Resources. These positions have given Mr. Sabourin an in-depth knowledge of the needs and challenge of operating Canada's parliament. Return to Staff, Associates, and Board of Directors David Rattray is a Senior Associate at the Parliamentary Centre. Prior to that, he was an Assistant Auditor General of Canada. From 2002 he was responsible for overseeing an international peer external review of the Office's performance audit product line, which was reported publicly in March 2004. From 2001 he was the Assistant Auditor General in charge of the Office's strategic planning, professional practice, and quality assurance programs. David has had experience in all aspects of the Office's work, including financial attest audits, special examinations, forensic, and performance audits. His portfolio included responsibility for most federal departments and several Crown corporations. He has been very active with the Certified General Accountant's (CGA) Association of Canada and CGA-Ontario. He has served as the chair of the Ottawa chapter, as a member of several provincial committees, and as a member of the National Tactical Steering Committee on Public Practice Rights. In 2000-2001 he chaired the National Task Force on the Future of the Accounting Profession and in 2002-03 was a member of the CGA-Canada Task Force on Restoring Public Confidence in Financial Reporting. From 1993 to 2002, he served as Canada's representative to the International Federation of Accountants' Public Sector Committee, which sets global accounting and reporting standards for governments. In 2002, he chaired the Public Sector Committees' Steering Committee on Non-Exchange Revenue. He is a member of the Institute of Internal Auditors Internal Auditing Standards Board. Mr. Rattray has a degree in Commerce from Concordia University and is a Certified General Accountant, a Certified Internal Auditor, and a Certified Fraud Examiner. He also holds a designation with the Chartered Institute of Corporate Secretaries and Administrators and has a designation as a Professional Administrator. He holds fellowships in both the CGA and Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators organizations. Return to Staff, Associates, and Board of Directors
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