DATE: Wednesday, April 27
TIME: 17:30 pm – 19:30 pm
LOCATION: St. Paul’s university, Guigues Hall, 223 Main street, Room G103
- Opening remarks
- Canadian Red Cross – Talk by :Jean-Pierre Taschereau, Director, Emergency Operations, Canadian Red Cross
- MERCY SHIPS – Changing Lives Through Health Services and Compassion – the challenges and the stories of delivering surgeries from the world’s largest civilian floating hospital ship – to the most impoverished people in Africa – Talk by : Marilyn Collette, President of Social Enterprise for Change
Biographies :
Jean-Pierre Taschereau has been a part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement since 1991. He has been engaged in various disaster response operations in Canada and overseas, including the Louisiana floods in 1995, hurricane George in Puerto Rico in 1997, the Quebec ice storm in 1998, hurricane Mitch in Guatemala and Nicaragua in 1999. Between 1999 and 2004, Mr. Taschereau worked with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Mexico, Indonesia, Colombia and Sudan. He was a relief coordinator for the International Federation of the Red Cross (IFRC) in Indonesia and the Canadian Red Cross’ Senior Manager for Field Operations from 2005 to 2006. From 2007 to 2009, he was deployed as a Disaster Management delegate then Operations Coordinator with the Pan American Disaster Response Unit (PADRU) in Panama, and led the Red Cross Movement’s response to the Haiti earthquake in January 2010. From 2012 to the end of 2014, he was one of the IFRC’s three Head of Emergency Operations (HEOps), and led the development of the IFRC’s response to the influx of Syrian refugees in Jordan, the food security crisis in the Sahel and the early response to the Ebola outbreaks in Sierra Leone and Guinea. Since January 2015, Mr. Taschereau has returned to the Canadian Red Cross as Director of Emergency Operations.
Mr. Taschereau has a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and a Master of Arts from the Université Laval, in Québec.
Link to Mr. Tashereau’s Ted Talk (in French): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th6rJBv0rEg
Marilyn Collette is President of Social Enterprise for Change. SEChange provides consulting and advisory services as a business partner to social enterprises internationally. In this capacity, she has developed partnerships between social entrepreneurs in Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa, Kenya, Calgary, Philippines and Nicaragua and Canadian and international financing entities enabling and scaling-up their social good projects. She is also National Chair of Mercy Ships Canada and is a member of the Ottawa Mayor’s {Refugee 613} Task Force – “Implementing Policy and Change”.
Her professional career includes: Executive Vice-President of the Advisory Council of International Bridges to Justice in Geneva (2007-09); International Director, National Judicial Institute (NJI), Ottawa, under the Board of Directors chaired by Canada’s Chief Justice (2004-07). In this capacity, Mrs. Collette managed NJI’s International Cooperation Program and its diverse portfolio of projects in judicial systems reform with the Supreme Courts of China and the Philippines and contributed to the development of reform projects in Russia, Ukraine, and Ghana.
Mrs. Collette was Senior Governance Specialist, East – Central Regional Department & Finance and Policy Division, Asian Development Bank (2000-04), Manila, Philippines. In that capacity, she was Chair of the Bank’s Governance Committee and the Governance Network and contributed significantly to the implementation of the ADB’s Governance Policy. In her work at the Bank she planned and managed legal, policy, governance assessments and reform projects in China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, and Tajikistan and oversaw their related publications.
During her 16 years with the CIDA (1984-2000), Mrs. Collette planned and implemented projects in infrastructure, governance, public policy development and institutional capacity building initially with the Leeward Islands and as Senior Country Analyst on the Philippines and China Desks and as Senior Performance Review Manager, Asia Branch’s Strategic Planning and Policy unit. She was posted twice to the Canadian Embassy, Beijing, as First Secretary (1988-91) and then Counsellor, Development (1997-2000). Prior to CIDA, she lived in Malaysia and evaluated International Planned Parenthood’s program there.
Ms. Collette has a Bachelor’s Degree from Dalhousie University, Halifax and a Master’s Degree in Social Work (MSW) in Social Policy and Administration from Carleton’s School of Social Work and the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs.
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