Selection Committee
The Senate elected its five representatives on the Selection Committee of the President at its meeting of March 5, 2007. They are Gary Slater, Dean of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, Mathieu Gravel, student of the School of Management, Nathalie Des Rosiers, Dean of the Civil Law Section, Cécile Coderre, Vice-Dean Academic and Secretary of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Claude Laguë, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering.
The make-up of the Selection Committee was confirmed by the Board at its meeting of March 26, 2007. The Board of Governors’ representatives on the Committee are Pierre de Blois, Ruth Freiman, Abdo Ghié and Kelly McClellan. In addition, there are two ex-officio members: Marc Jolicoeur as Chair of the Selection Committee and Gilles Hurteau as Vice-Chair.
The Selection Committee’s first meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, April 3, 2007.
Make-Up of the Selection Committee of the President
Members :
Members :
Coderre, Cécile (elected by the Senate)
Cécile Coderre is a full professor in the School of Social Work, and currently Vice-Dean (Academic) and Secretary of the Faculty of Social Sciences. A sociologist and social worker by training, she is interested in issues of violence against women, minority Francophone women’s movements, feminist and community approaches to intervention and the relationship of women to the State. She is also interested in the sociology of work and the family, and specifically in female managers of large public and private companies. She is co-author of Femmes de carrière, carrières de femmes (UOP). In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Second Sex, she co-edited a collection entitled Le deuxième sexe, Une relecture en trois temps 1949-1971-1999. Her current work deals with the history of the women’s anti-violence movement in French Ontario and initiatives to fight poverty among minority Francophone women in Canada. In her capacity as Vice-Dean (Academic) and Secretary, she has driven the creation of new and innovative programs that address modern socio-political issues. She has also launched projects to enrich the student experience.
de Blois, Pierre (appointed by the Board of Governors)
Pierre de Blois is a member of the Board of Governors of the University of Ottawa. Until October 2005, he was the executive director of the Association of Professional Executives of the Public Service of Canada (APEX), an organization that represents the interests of professional executives in the public service in Canada. His initiatives focus on improving the public service management, health and work environment, and work conditions.
Mr. de Blois graduated from the University of Ottawa and has been involved in this community since 1972. He has been member of community associations (Action Sandy Hill, group for the construction of a perimeter highway), art groups (Théâtre d’la Corvée, founder and president of the Franco-Ontarian Festival – 1976-1992); human rights organizations (he ran the funding campaign for the design and construction of the human rights monument on Elgin Street); francophone groups (he was chair of ACFO- Ottawa-Carleton for 5 years where he focused on obtaining Francophone school boards and the bilingual status of municipalities); and health groups ( member of the Board of Directors for the Sandy Hill Health Centre, vice-chair of the Board of Directors for Montfort Hospital and member of the Board of Directors for the Ottawa Hospital).
Des Rosiers, Nathalie (elected by the Senate)
Nathalie Des Rosiers is the Dean of the Civil Law Section of the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa. She is a member of Barreau du Québec and the Law Society of Upper Canada. She has obtained an LL.B from the Université de Montréal, an LL.M from Harvard University and an Honorary Doctorate from the Law Society of Upper Canada. She has received the Order of Merit of the Association of French Speaking Jurists of Ontario (AJEFO) in 2002, the Partnership Award from the Association of Professional Executives of the Public Service of Canada (APEX) in 2004, the « Personnalité de l’année (Éducation) » Award in 2005, and the medal of the Law Society of Upper Canada in 1999.
From 2000 to 2004, Ms Des Rosiers was President of the Law Commission of Canada. Before that, she was a clerk at the Supreme Court of Canada, had a private practice (civil litigation) and was a professor in Ontario (The University of Western Ontario) and abroad. She has been President of the Canadian Association of Law Teachers, President of the Association of French Speaking Jurists of Ontario, member of the Ontario Environmental Review Tribunal and Commissionner of the Ontario Law Reform Commission. She has been President of the Council of Canadian Law Deans since 2005. Her research interests include constitutional law and women’s rights.
Freiman, Ruth (appointed by the Board of Governors)
Ruth Freiman is Chief Executive Officer of HOWO, a real estate and financial investments company located in Berlin, Germany. She is responsible for the renovation of older buildings and oversees the leasing staff for the rental of apartments, and retail and warehouse spaces. For many years, she was the owner and director of Robertson Galleries in Ottawa, representing Canadian artists from across the country by selling and evaluating art collections for private, corporate and government sectors. In 1993, Ruth was appointed Vice-Chairperson to the Board of Directors of the National Gallery of Canada. She is also Vice-President of the Congregation Beth Shalom, member of the Professional Art Dealers Association of Canada, member of the Board of Directors of the Ottawa Congress Centre, member of the Board of Hillel Academy, and many others.
Ghié, Abdo G. (appointed by the Board of Governors)
Abdo Georges Ghié obtained a bachelor of commerce (management and public policy option) from the University of Ottawa in 1996 and a master’s degree in international management from the École nationale d’administration publique (ÉNAP) in 2001.
Mr. Ghié has held various positions at the University of Ottawa. From 1993 to 2004, he was International Student Advisor and, in the summer of 2001, he was Assistant to the President for the 4th Jeux de la Francophonie. Since 2004, he has been Assistant to the Associate Vice-President, Strategic Enrollment Management and Registrar. In 2000 and 2001, he was on temporary assignment as Marketing Director for Cowan Wright Beauchamp. In addition to his regular position, he teaches part time at the University of Ottawa’s School of Management.
Abdo Ghié became a member of the University of Ottawa’s Board of Governors in 2003. In 2004, he also sat on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Bureau for International Education (CBIE) and, from 1997 to 2002, he was President of the University of Ottawa Alumni Staff Chapter.
Gravel, Mathieu (elected by the Senate)
Originally from Smooth Rock Falls, a small Francophone community in Northern Ontario where he founded his own company, Mathieu Gravel is in the final year of his Bachelor of Commerce degree (option in Finance) at the University of Ottawa School of Management. In coming years, he hopes to begin graduate studies in economics at the University.
He relocated to the National Capital Region in order to take part in the Page Program in the House of Commons. His keen interest in politics led him to take the position of Coordinator, Organization in the National Office of the Liberal Party of Canada, an organization he has worked with for nearly two years. His belief in the cooperative movement has manifested itself through his involvement on the Board of the Caisse populaire Rideau d’Ottawa, where he has served since being elected in 2006.
Since arriving in Ottawa, Mathieu has been involved on campus as Vice-President, Finance, of the Residents’ Association and as a member of the Board of Directors of the University of Ottawa chapter of the Ontario Public Interest Research Group (OPIRG). Within the School of Management, he currently holds a position as teaching assistant and has served as the School’s student representative on the Senate since fall 2006. He also sits on the Senate’s Committee on Honorary Degrees.
Hurteau, Gilles D. (ex-officio member, Vice-Chairman of the Committee)
After completing his undergraduate studies at the University of Ottawa, Dr. Gilles Hurteau subsequently studied medicine at McGill University and trained in surgery at Case-Western University in Cleveland Ohio. He then embarked in specialty training in obstetrics and gynaecology at Yale University, under a fellowship and grant from the Canadian Cancer Society. He joined the University of Ottawa in 1962 where he held the position of Professor and Chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (1967-1976). He was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Medicine (1976) and Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences (1978), positions he held concurrently until 1989, when he retired from the University as Emeritus Professor.
Doctor Hurteau served as Executive Director of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (1990-1995), the organization responsible for setting standards of practice in the medical and surgical specialties in Canada and the certification and maintenance of competence of Canadian specialists.
As President of the Association of Canadian Medical Colleges, Doctor Hurteau also chaired its Committee on Accreditation of Canadian Medical Schools. He has represented Canadian physicians at meetings on accreditation, medical education and prevention of nuclear war, in the former USSR, the Middle East and Africa.
Dr. Gilles Hurteau is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland and the American College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
Jolicoeur, Marc (ex-officio member, Chairman of the Committee)
Marc Jolicoeur has been involved with the Board of Governors since 1995 and has been Chair of the Board since 2003. He has held several significant positions within the University of Ottawa, including chair of the Executive Committee, vice-chair of the Board of Governors, chair of the Audit Committee, chair of the Foundation of the University of Ottawa, and a member of several committees including the selection committees for the president of the University and the deans of Common Law and Droit civil.
Mr. Jolicoeur earned two degrees from the University of Ottawa; a Bachelor of Business Administration in 1975 and an LLB in 1978. He joined the law firm of Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (formerly known as Scott & Aylen) in 1978 as an articling student and returned as a lawyer after completing his Bar Admission Course in the spring of 1980. He became a partner in 1984. He was managing partner of the firm from 1995 to 1998 and is currently the National Leader of BLG's Corporate Commercial Group in the Ottawa office. Mr. Jolicoeur is also a member of the firm's National Council and its Ottawa office management committee.
His current area of practice is business law – focused in the corporate/commercial field servicing business corporations, financial institutions, crown corporations, public institutions and not-for-profit organizations. He is also regularly consulted in relation to corporate/commercial matters including contracts, governance, joint ventures, commercial transactions, reorganizations, financing, secured lending, insolvency matters and business restructuring.
Past and present teaching involvement includes senior instructor and seminar instructor in the Ottawa program of the Bar Admission Course of the Law Society of Upper Canada for over ten years; speaker at numerous conferences and continuing education programs on corporate and commercial law topics including the University's Advanced Business Law course.
Mr Jolicoeur has a strong belief in business and community participation and during his professional career has been actively involved with over 20 institutions as members of their boards, steering committees, as well as in various other roles. He has been active in organizations such as the University of Ottawa Heart Institute, the United Way, the National Association of University Board Chairs and Secretaries, the Council of Ontario Universities, the Community Foundation of Ottawa, and the Ottawa Civic Hospital.
Mr Jolicoeur has received many awards including an award recognizing his contribution to the community from Ronald McDonald House (2004), the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal for contribution to the community (2003), the André Mailhot Award – United Way Canada’s highest award of merit (2002), and the Gordon F. Henderson Award from the County of Carleton Law Association in recognition of business and community involvement (2001).
Laguë, Claude (elected by the Senate)
Dr Claude Laguë specializes in the engineering of agricultural machinery and manure management systems. Between 1982 and 1985, he worked as a Project Engineer for the consulting firm Urgel Delisle et Associés Inc. on various projects related to agricultural machinery, manure management, and the agricultural impacts of pipeline construction. Dr Laguë held a faculty position at Université Laval from 1989 to 1999 where his teaching and research activities focused on agricultural machinery engineering. He conducted research experimental and modeling work in the areas of soil-machine-products interactions in agricultural machines, controlled-traffic farming systems, mechanical and physical control methods against weeds and insect pests and the energy efficiency of agricultural field operations.
In January, 2000, Dr Laguë was appointed Chair Holder of the Sask Pork Chair in Environmental Engineering for the Pork Industry in the College of Engineering at the University of Saskatchewan. In that capacity, he engaged into research that focused on the engineering of efficient and effective strategies and systems for manure management in livestock production using a systems engineering approach. Specific research efforts were in the areas of the evaluation of greenhouse gas emissions from swine production buildings and manure storage facilities, the physical and flow characterization of livestock manure as related to the design and operation of handling and land application equipment, the energy efficiency of manure management systems, and the identification of criteria (agronomic, economic, environmental, societal, technical) for the selection and optimization of manure management strategies and systems and assessment of their relative importance.
During his academic career, Dr Laguë has held a number of administrative and management positions in three Canadian universities. Between 1995 and 1996, he served as Vice-doyen à la recherche of the Faculté des sciences de l'agriculture et de l'alimentation (FSAA) of Université Laval. In 1996, he accepted the position of Head of the newly established Département des sols et de génie agroalimentaire at the FSAA. Dr Laguë was appointed Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Saskatchewan in 2002 and in 2006, he became the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Ottawa.
Dr Laguë is a registered Professional Engineer in Québec (OIQ), in Ontario (PEO) and in Saskatchewan (APEGS). He is a member of the engineering societies ASBE, ASEE and CSBE/SCGAB. Dr Laguë is also a member of the Club of Bologna, an international association of experts in agricultural mechanization. He received the 'Young Engineer of the Year' and the 'Glen Downing' awards from CSBE/SCGAB in 1998 and 2001 respectively. In 1995, the Association francophone pour le savoir (ACFAS) presented Dr Laguë with an award for the best extension article written by a university professor.
McClellan, Kelly (appointed by the Board of Governors)
Kelly McClellan joined the University of Ottawa as a PhD student in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine in 2003 after completing her Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees at McGill University. A recipient of numerous provincial, national, and international research awards, Kelly presently holds a prestigious Canada Graduate Scholarship from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Under the supervision of Dr. Ruth Slack in the Faculty of Medicine, Kelly’s research is focused on identifying genes that regulate neural stem cells in the developing brain. In 2005 graduate students at the University of Ottawa voted overwhelmingly in favour of Kelly’s nomination to the Board of Governors. Kelly’s role is to represent the interests of graduate students at large. She brings with her a wealth of experience representing graduate student interests having served for over 4 years on several administrative bodies at both University of Ottawa and McGill. In addition to serving on the Board of Governors, Kelly is currently President of the Cellular and Molecular Medicine/Neurosciences Graduate Student Association.
Slater, Gary (elected by the Senate)
Gary W. Slater, PhD, is a full professor in the Department of Physics, Dean of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, and University Research Chair in Biological Physics. His research tools include statistical physics and computer modelling. His research examines the dynamics of polymers and biologically derived macromolecules. In particular, he is currently interested in microfluidics and nanofluidics, DNA analysis and sequencing methods, biofilm growth, drug delivery systems and porous systems. He sits on the Board of Trustees of the High-Performance Computing Virtual Lab (HPCVL).
Guest :
Harrod, Pamela A. (Secretary of the Committee)
Pamela Harrod was appointed Secretary of the University in August 2006.
Pamela Harrod held the position of Corporate Secretary and General Counsel at the University of Winnipeg where she was responsible for coordinating and facilitating the activities of the Board of Regents, the Senate, and their committees. She also provided advice on legal matters to the University community and the Art Curator’s Department. In addition, she acted as university liaison for Virtuosi Concerts. Her career has included positions as legal counsel in both the private and public sector. These include the Canadian Federal Department of Justice, General Electric Canada Inc, and CanWest Global Communications Corp.
Ms. Harrod obtained a Bachelor of Arts in History/Political Science from Carleton University (1977) and an LLB (1980) and LLM (1989) from the University of Ottawa.
She is a member of the Canadian Society of Corporate Secretaries, the Canadian Bar Association, and the Canadian Corporate Counsel Association.