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IMPAC5 is where we will come together and take a stand to protect the ocean.

  • Alexandra Dostal – Assistant Deputy Minister (ADM), Aquatic Ecosystems Sector, Fisheries and Oceans Canada (Chair)
  • Darlene Upton – Vice President, Protected Areas Establishment and Conservation, Parks Canada Agency
  • Manon Larocque, Director General, Strategic Programs Initiatives, Fisheries and Oceans Canada
  • Nicole Cote – Director General, Protected Areas, Environment and Climate Change Canada
  • Kevin McNamee – Director, Protected Areas Establishment Branch Parks Canada Agency (PCA)
  • Cheryl Webb – Regional Director, Ecosystems Management Branch, Pacific Region, Fisheries and Oceans Canada
  • Charles Short – Executive Director, Regional Operations, BC Ministry of Forest, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Regional Development
  • Laura Sparrow – Councillor and Fisheries Manager, Musqueam Indian Band
  • Aaron Marchant – Referrals Analyst, Squamish Nation
  • Environmental Specialist, Tsleil-waututh Nation
  • Steve Diggon – Marine Planning Coordinator, Coastal First Nations/Great Bear Initiative
  • Eric Angel – Uu-a-thluk Fisheries Program Manager, Nuu-Chah-Nulth Tribal Council
  • Stephanie Meakin – Senior Science Advisor, Inuit Circumpolar Council
  • Jordan Point – Executive Director, BC First Nations Fisheries Council
  • Jamie Lavigne – Director of Water, Assembly of First Nations
  • Sandra Schwartz – National Executive Director, Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society
  • Minna Epps – Director, Global Marine and Polar Programme, IUCN
  • Rashid Sumaila – Professor, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, University of British Columbia
  • Scott Bohachyk, Director, Ocean & Climate Literacy
  • Sabine Jessen – Executive Director, International Engagement and Communications, IMPAC5
  • John Thomson, Director, Operations, IMPAC5

WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU IN VANCOUVER IN FEBRUARY 2023

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