Michael Barrett

Michael Barrett is the associate director of the Renewable Resources, Environment, Lands and Parks Department of the Kativik Regional Government. He has served as a member of the KEAC from its creation until 1990 and from 1999 to the present.

Raymond Mickpegak, Chairperson for 2023-2024

Raymond Mickpegak was elected to the Makivik Corporation Board of Members, representing Kuujjuaraapik, in 2000. He currently serves as Chairman of NEAS Inc., a joint partnership with the North West Company and Logistics Inc.  He was named to the KEAC in October 2022.

Minnie Grey

Minnie Grey has worked actively throughout her career to improve the quality of life for Inuit in Nunavik, Canada and internationally.

Born in Kangirsuk, Nunavik, she has held various position and honors within the Makivik Corporation, Canada office of the Inuit Circumpolar Council, Nunavik Education Task Force, the Nunavik Nutrition and Health Committee, and the Nunavik Regional Board of Health and Social Services among many other.

She is the recipient of a National Aboriginal Achievement Award as well as the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami Award, the Queen’s Jubilee medal from the office of the Governor General, has the title of Chevalier having received the Order of Quebec in June 2013 and became a member of the Order of Canada in 2017.

More recently in 2022, she received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Montreal. Since 2013, Minnie held the position of Executive Director of the Nunavik Regional Board of Health and Social Services, until her recent retirement in July 2023.

Paule Halley

Paule Halley, LL.D., is a lawyer, a professor of law at Université Laval and the Canada Research Chair in Environmental Law. She was appointed to the KEAC in 1999.

Vanessa Chalifour– Vice-Chairperson for 2022-2023

Vanessa Chalifour holds a bachelor’s degree in geography from Laval University. Since February 2021 she is a coordinator/team leader for northern projects at the Industrial, Mining, Energy and Northern Projects Environmental Assessment Branch of the ministère de l’Environnement et de la Lutte contre les changements climatiques (the environment and the fight against climate change). From 2017 to 2021, she was also executive secretary of the Evaluating Committee (COMEV) and the Environmental and Social Impact Review Committee (COMEX). She was appointed a member of the KEAC in 2020.

André-Anne Gagnon

André-Anne Gagnon holds a bachelor’s degree in biological sciences from the University of Montreal as well as a master’s degree in maritime resource management from the University of Quebec in Rimouski. Since November 2020, she has been working in the National Parks Department at the Ministry of Forests, Wildlife and Parks as a project manager. Ms. Gagnon also has experience in the field of environmental assessment of northern and mining projects. She was named a KEAC member in 2020.

Marc-Antoine Giroux

Pierre-Yves Gagnon

Marie-Noëlle Fournier

Marie-Noëlle holds a bachelor’s degree in communications and has worked for more than 15 years for programs and NPOs for territorial and community development purposes. She is now coordinator of the Indigenous relations Unit team for the Fish and Fish Habitat Protection program for Fisheries and Oceans Canada. She was appointed to the KEAC in 2022.

Executive Secretary: Benjamin Patenaude

Benjamin Patenaude has held the position of executive secretary since 2013.

Environmental Analyst: Nancy Dea

Nancy Dea has worked as an environmental analyst for the KEAC since 2012.

Policy Analyst: Christine Lambert.

Christine Lambert was hired as analyst in April 2022.