Board of Directors
HONORARY PATRON
Her Excellency the Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean, C.C., C.M.M., C.O.M., C.D., Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of Canada
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
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Mr. Dominique Caouette |
Chair / Canada |
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Dominique Caouette is Assistant Professor at the Université de Montréal where he teaches International Relations and Southeast Asian politics. He has also worked for the NGO InterPares. |
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Mr. Mark Austin |
Director / Canada |
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Mark Austin is a wild-blueberry farmer in Cumberland County, NS. His career has included university teaching; work in the film industry; and consultancy work on social policy. |
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Ms. Doris Pilar Balvin Diaz |
Director / Peru |
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Doris Pilar Balvin Diaz has worked on environmental management and local development with Peruvian municipalities and NGOs, international NGOs like Canadian Lutheran World Relief, and UNICEF. She is a member of the Consultative Council of the Peruvian National Environmental Council. |
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Rev. Allison Barrett |
Director / Canada |
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Rev. Allison Barrett is recently retired from serving the First Unitarian Church of Hamilton as parish minister, where she served from 1996 to 2008. |
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Ms. Joan Baxter |
Director / Canada |
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A writer and journalist, Joan Baxter splits her time between Nova Scotia and West Africa. She has written four books about Africa, including her latest about the impact of Western policies there. She recently finished a two-year term as Executive Director of the Nova Scotia - Gambia Association. |
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Ms. Julie Delahanty |
Director / Canada |
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Julie Delahanty is team leader working on Social Development Policy at the Canadian International Develoment Agency (CIDA). She has also worked as Deputy Director for Gender Equality at Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada (DFAIT). |
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Mr. Richard J. Fast |
Director / Canada |
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Richard Fast is the director of communications and fundraising coordinator for Mennonite Central Committee Canada, an international relief and development organization. |
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Mr. Mamby Fofana |
Director / Mali |
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Mamby Fofana has worked with USC, both as Director of our Mali program and our SoS West Africa Program. He is now using his knowledge of development and environmental issues – particularly those relating to desertification – in his work with the Swedish Development Corporation. |
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Mr. Dale Huntingford |
Treasurer / Canada |
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Dale Huntingford is the Director of Upstream Terminal Development at Enbridge Pipelines in Calgary. |
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Mr. Anil Naidoo |
Director / Canada |
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Anil Naidoo is the Director of the Blue Planet Project of the Council of Canadians – a global initiative aimed at achieving water justice. |
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Ms. Wilhelmina ‘Ditdit’ Pelegrina |
Director / Philippines |
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Wilhelmina R. Pelegrina, an agronomist by training, is the Executive Director of SEARICE, a Philippines-headquartered network of organizations from South East Asia working for social justice and the sustainable use of the earth’s natural resources. |
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Mr. Gopal Siwakoti ‘Chintan’ |
Director / Nepal |
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Gopal Siwakoti ‘Chintan’, a prominent human rights defender, is the Coordinator of the Water and Energy Users’ Federation Nepal (WAFED). He has been active in environmental campaigns in Nepal and abroad since 1993. |
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Mr. Patrick Steiner |
Director / Canada |
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Patrick Steiner is an organic farmer in BC who operates Stellar Seeds, a seed company growing and selling rare and hard to find varieties of crops. |
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Ms. Robin Tunnicliffe |
Director / Canada |
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Robin Tunnicliffe is a full-time farmer, and owner of Feisty Field Organic Farm in Victoria, BC. She is also co-owner of Saanich Organics, a cooperative marketing business for certified organic produce. |
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Executive Director |
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Mrs. Susan Walsh |
Executive Director, USC Canada |
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Susan initially worked at USC as a Program Officer in the late 1980’s, and in the interim, helmed the World Food Day Association and worked for over a decade with Canadian Lutheran World Relief as that agency’s Director for Latin America Programs. USC drew her back to Ottawa in 2004, this time as the agency’s Executive Director. During these past two decades, Susan has spearheaded strategies designed to promote the legal, cultural, and livelihood rights of indigenous peoples and marginalized farmers, strengthened though the completion of a doctoral degree in cultural anthropology at the University of Manitoba, and a year of SSHRC-sponsored field research on the biodiversity conservation and resilience strategies of indigenous potato farmers in Bolivia’s southern highlands. |
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COMMITTEES OF THE USC CANADA BOARD OF DIRECTORS
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
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Mr. Dominique Caouette |
Chair of the Board / Chair of the Foundation |
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Mr. Dale Huntingford |
Chair of Finance Committee / Treasurer |
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Mr. Mark Austin |
Member at Large |
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Rev. Allison Barrett |
Member at Large |
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Ms. Julie Delahanty |
Member at Large |
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Ms. Susan Walsh |
Executive Director |
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Ms. Francine Longtin |
Director, Finance and Administration |
FINANCE & AUDIT COMMITTEE
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Mr. Dale Huntingford |
Chair of Finance Committee / Treasurer |
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Ms. Pauline Port |
External Advisor |
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Ms. Susan Walsh |
Executive Director |
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Ms. Francine Longtin |
Director, Finance and Administration |
USC FOUNDATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS
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Mr. Dominique Caouette |
Chair of the Board / Chair of the Foundation |
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Mr. Dale Huntingford |
Chair of Finance Committee / Acting Treasurer |
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Mr. Douglas Cousins |
Ad-hoc Member |
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Ms. Lucy Grossmann-Hensel |
Ad-hoc Member |
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Ms. Susan Walsh |
Executive Director |
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Ms. Francine Longtin |
Director, Finance and Administration |
