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ARDN Staff

Dee Ann Benard
Executive Director
 		 Phone: 780-449-1006 ext. 223
Email: exec.dir@ardn.ca
 
Joy Vonk
Operations Manager

 Phone: 780-449-1006 ext. 221
Email: operations@ardn.ca
 
Paul Watson
Research Director
 		 Phone: 780-449-1006 ext. 222
Email: research@ardn.ca
 

Melissa St. Dennis
Communications Manager

Phone: 780-449-1006 ext. 224
Email: communications@ardn.ca
   
   

 Board of Directors 2012/2013

 

Chair:
Trent Keough, President & CEO
Portage College
Past Chair:
Rick Neidig, President & CEO
Northern Lakes College 
 
Vice Chair:
Dietmar Kennepohl, Associate Vice-President
Academic
Athabasca University 
Treasurer:
Robert Woodrow, Professor of Mathematics
and Statistics
University of Calgary 
 
Secretary:
Gerry Paradis, Associate Vice President Strategic
Planning and Research
Red Deer College 
 
Director:
Marg McCuaig Boyd, Vice President Fairview
Grande Prairie Regional College 
Director:
Mel Mathison, Dean Environment and
Research
Lakeland College 
 
Director:
Peter Leclaire, Interim President and CEO
Lethbridge College 
 
Director:
Norma Schneider, Vice President Teaching
& Learning
NorQuest College 
 
Director:
John Kennelly, Dean Faculty of Agricultural,
Life & Environmental Sciences
University of Alberta
 
   
   
   
   
   

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