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GOVERNANCE OF CENTREAU

Diagram of the different Centerau Governance Committee

The group relies on the leadership of an Executive Committee for its administration. A Management Committee is in place to supervise the proper functioning of the group and to act in an advisory capacity to the Executive Committee. The Scientific Committee is responsible for the center's scientific programming, while the Infrastructure and Data Committee facilitates the sharing of infrastructures and ensures that they are effectively managed. The Steering Committee aims to give the pulse of what is happening outside the Center and therefore to advise the Scientific Committee. The Student Committee, for its part, acts as a consultant to the Scientific Committee and the Executive Committee.

Executive Committee

The EC is in charge of applying the Center's orientations, ensuring sound financial management, promoting partnerships with stakeholders in the field, approving members' membership applications and any other operational decision.

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  • René Therrien, general director, CentrEau

  • Annie Poulin, scientific director, CentrEau

  • Anaïs Nedjari, coordinator, CentrEau

  • Valérie Sanderson, knowledge broker, CentrEau

  • François Anctil, institutional representative, Université Laval

  • Michel Baraër, institutional representative, École de technologie supérieure

  • Marie-Amélie Boucher, institutional representative, Université de Sherbrooke

  • Simon Barnabé, institutional representative, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

  • Françoise Bichai, institutional representative, Polytechnique Montréal

  • Dominic Frigon, institutional representative, McGill University

  • Édith Laflamme, institutional representative, Cégep Saint-Laurent (CTEAU)

  • Taha Ouarda, institutional representative, Institut national de recherche scientifique

  • Julie Simard, institutional representative, Cégep de Sainte-Foy (CERFO)

  • Hugo Tremblay, institutional representative, Université de Montréal

  • Louise Vandelac, institutional representative, Université du Québec à Montréal

  • Vacant, student representative

Management Committee

The MC supervises the proper functioning of the group and acts in an advisory capacity to the EC.

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  • René Therrien, general director, CentrEau

  • Annie Poulin, scientific director, CentrEau

  • Anaïs Nedjari, coordinator, CentrEau

  • Valérie Sanderson, knowledge broker, CentrEau

Scientific committee

The SciC ensures that the Center's scientific programming is established and kept up to date, coordinates scientific activities between members, ensures the representativeness of members in each axis, and proposes scientific animation activities.

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  • René Therrien, general director, CentrEau

  • Annie Poulin, scientific director, CentrEau

  • Anaïs Nedjari, coordinator, CentrEau

  • Valérie Sanderson, knowledge broker, CentrEau

  • Camila Gordon, scientific coordinator of CentrEau and representative of the Student Committee

  • Romain Philippe, CCTT representative, Cégep de Saint-Laurent (CTEAU)

  • Nathalie Gravel, Governance and management axis representative, Université Laval

  • Alain Létourneau, Governance and management axis representative, Université de Sherbrooke

  • Tadros Ghobrial, Availability axis representative, Université Laval

  • Elmira Hassanzadeh, Availability axis representative, Polytechnique Montréal

  • Émilie Bédard , Uses axis representative, Polytechnique Montréal

  • Sébastien Faucher, Uses axis representative, McGill University

Steering committee

The SteC aims to give the pulse of what is happening outside the Center. It ensures synergy between scientific progress, development and the real needs of society with regard to the group's scientific programming.

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  • Annie Poulin, scientific director, CentrEau

  • René Therrien, general director, CentrEau

  • Valérie Sanderson, knowledge broker, CentrEau

  • Alain Bourque, executive director, Ouranos

  • Guillaume Clairet, executive vice-president & chief operating officer, H20 Innovation

  • Caroline Côté, researcher, Research and Development Institute for the Agri-Environment (IRDA)

  • Diane D'Arras, president, International Water Association (IWA)

  • Karine Dauphin, director general, Regroupement des organismes de bassin versant du Québec (ROBVQ)

  • Marc-André Desjardins, vice-president Environment, FNX-INNOV

  • Simon Dugré, director, Centre d’innovation sociale en agriculture (CISA)

  • Yanick Fortier, water service superintendent, City of Saint-Eustache

  • Hervé Logé, chief of sustainable water management, City of Montreal

  • Caroline Robert, director - drinking water and groundwater department, ministère de l'Environnement, du Développement durable et de la Lutte contre les changements climatiques (MELCCFP)

  • Richard Turcotte, scientific advisor - water expertise department, ministère de l'Environnement, du Développement durable et de la Lutte contre les changements climatiques (MELCCFP)

Student committee

The StuC acts as a consultant to the SteC and the SciC. It makes proposals to improve the operation of the Center, organizes various student activities and supports the organization of several group activities.

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  • Anaïs Nedjari, coordinator, CentrEau

  • Valérie Sanderson, knowledge broker, CentrEau

  • Said Alou Tankari, Institut national de recherche scientifique

  • Louis Raymond Emmanuel Asie, Institut national de recherche scientifique​

  • Chloé Bernier, École de technologie supérieure

  • Émilie Bilodeau, École de technologie supérieure

  • Andres Gonzales, Institut national de recherche scientifique

  • Camila Gordon, Institut national de recherche scientifique, représentante étudiante au Comité scientifique

  • Mélanie McGrory, École de technologie supérieure

  • Léo Soucy, École de technologie supérieure

Infrastructure and Data Committee

The IDC ensures that the infrastructures made available to members of the Center are efficiently and fairly managed, facilitates access to infrastructures belonging to the different institutions, ensures that members can share their data effectively and supervises the sharing of staff research center.

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  • Annie Poulin, scientific director, CentrEau

  • Valérie Sanderson, knowledge broker, CentrEau

  • Richard Arsenault, École de technologie supérieure 

  • Benoit Barbeau, Polytechnique Montréal

  • Sophie Duchesne, Institut national de recherche scientifique

  • Sylvain Jutras, Université Laval

  • Mélanie Trudel, Université de Sherbrooke

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee (EDI)

The main objective of the EDI committee is to create an EDI policy and action plan for CentrEau in order to support research and training commitments in the field of water in Quebec, while providing a climate of justice, trust and inclusion within all members of the group .

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  • Françoise Bichai, head of the EDI committee, Polytechnique Montréal

  • René Therrien, general director, CentrEau

  • Anaïs Nedjari, coordinator, CentrEau

  • Laureline Berthot, Institut national de recherche scientifique

  • Dominic Frigon, McGill University

  • Raymond Kabo, Université Laval

  • Raja Kammoun, Polytechnique Montréal

  • Julien Malard, McGill University

  • Janie Masse-Dufresne, Polytechnique Montréal

  • Flavia Visentin, Polytechnique Montréal

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If you have ever had the impression of experiencing injustice within the CentrEau group in relation to the principles of EDI, do not hesitate to let us know using this form .

Board of Directors

The role of the Board of Directors is to act in an advisory capacity to the Executive Committee, to form the Nomination Committee of the general management and to adopt the budget forecasts.

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The Board of Directors is made up of the Director General and the Scientific Director of CentrEau, as well as the institutional authority of each member institution (generally the Vice-Rector of Research or their representative).

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