Secretariat

Role of the Secretariat

The Secretariat is headed by an Executive Director and its activities are carried out by professional staff from Canada, Mexico and the United States. Each year, the Secretariat submits the Commission’s program and budget to the Council for approval. The Secretariat also has special responsibilities to consider submissions from any non-governmental organization or citizen that a party is failing to effectively enforce its environmental law.

Staff

CEC Executive Director

Jorge Daniel Taillant

Jorge Daniel Taillant

Executive Director

Jorge Daniel Taillant serves as the CEC’s Executive Director since August of 2022.

He is a life-long global advocate for human rights and environmental protection. His career spans several decades, working with international development agencies, as an advisor to governments, leading innovative civil society organizations and networks, and with disadvantaged communities to tackle some of the world’s most pressing environmental challenges.

He has spear-headed incisive global initiatives to link human rights and environmental advocacy, pushing for more effective public policies, stronger legislation and greater corporate accountability and respect for human rights and environmental sustainability.

During the past decade, he has turned his focus to tackling the triple planetary crisis of climate change, pollution and biodiversity loss, advocating for immediate actions to aggressively phase out the most intense climate pollutants, such as methane, black carbon, hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), and tropospheric ozone (O3), while promoting inclusive, equitable and resilient adaptation for the most climate-vulnerable and disadvantaged communities.

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Executive Director

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Nathalie Daoust

Director, Government Relations, Strategy and Performance

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Angela Nembavlakis

Director, Administration

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Paolo Solano Tovar

Director, Legal Affairs and SEM Unit

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Orlando Cabrera-Rivera

Head of Unit, Environmental Quality

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Georgina O’Farrill

Head of Unit, Outreach and Partnerships

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Marcela Orozco

Head of Unit, Advisory Groups and Private Sector Engagement

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Lucie Robidoux

Head of Unit, Ecosystems

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Patrick Tonissen

Head of Unit, Communications

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Armando Yáñez Sandoval

Head of Unit, Green Growth

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Timothy Gull

Officer, Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and Indigenous Affairs

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Caitlin McCoy

Legal Officer, Legal Affairs and SEM Unit

Esteban Salcedo

Legal Officer, Legal Affairs and SEM Unit

Cezar Anghel

Manager, Information Technology

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Frantz Bernard

Manager, Human Resources

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Frantzy Charles

Comptroller

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Antonia Andúgar Miñarro

Project Lead, Green Growth

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Antoine Asselin-Nguyen

Project Lead, Ecosystems

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Catherine Boyd Michaud

Project Lead, Ecosystems

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Elizabeth Campos Sánchez

Project Lead, Environmental Quality

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José Antonio Casis

Lead, Planning and Performance

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Dominique Croteau

Project Lead, Geospatial and Environmental Information

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Ilse Esparza Magaña

Lead, Green Growth

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Samantha Gagnon

Lead, Advisory Groups and Private Sector Engagement

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Julie Amina Jacquemin

Lead, Outreach, Partnerships and Youth Engagement

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Alaïs Nevert

Lead, Communications

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Natalia Andrea Restrepo Velez

Lead, Environmental Quality

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Danielle Vallée

Project Lead, North American PRTR Initiative

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Mónica Valtierra Brestchneider

Project Lead, Green Growth

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Dora Alvarez

Coordinator, Social Media

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Marilou Nichols

Administrative Coordinator, Publications

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Liliana Paz Miller

Coordinator, Meeting Services

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Violaine Pronovost

Lead, Community Grant Programs

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Natalia Cardona

Assistant, Meeting Services

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Carmen Cimpian

File Management and Office Clerk

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Malika Elhadj

Executive Assistant to the Executive Director

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Simonetta Ferrante

Coordinator, Human Resources and Administration

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Andrea Gambarini

Assistant, Green Growth

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Erika Hercules

Assistant, Environmental Quality

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Rocío de la Infiesta

Assistant to the Director, Government Relations, Strategy and Performance

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Michel Lafortune

File Management and Office Clerk

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Linda Lee

Accounting Clerk

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Doris Millan

Assistant to the Director, Legal Affairs and SEM Unit

Karina Morales

Assistant, Advisory Groups and Private Sector Engagement

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Ashfak Reza

Support Technician, Information Technology

Yadira Rodríguez

Assistant, Outreach and Partnerships and Communication Units

CEC Consultant

Eleonor Fascilla

Consultant, Outreach and Partnerships

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Christina Joy

Consultant, Communications

CEC Intern

Pascale Khoury-Samia

Consultant, Strategy and Performance

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Mariana Salazar

Consultant, Outreach, Partnerships and Youth Engagement

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Build trust around you

Integrity

Do the right thing

Excellence

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Collaboration

Make it happen together

Inclusiveness

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Reports and Governing Documents

Quality Assurance Requirements

November 4, 2021

Quality assurance standards applied to all our information products

Staff Rules

November 4, 2021

These Rules set out terms and conditions of employment, working relationships and rights and responsibilities of the employees in the service of the Commission

Financial Rules

August 24, 2021

Rules governing the financial administration of the CEC

Secretariat

1001 Robert-Bourassa Boulevard, suite 1620
Montreal (Quebec) H3B 4L4
Phone: +1 (514) 350-4300
Fax: +1 (438) 701-1434

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