Professional activities

  • 2018-date        Member, Board of Directors, Royal Canadian Mint of Canada
  • 2017-2018       Member, Review panel, Genome Canada
  • 2013-date        Member, Board of Directors CCC256 
  • 2011-2013       Member, Review panel, Innovation centres, Ministerio de educacion, Chile          
  • 2009-2010       Member, Advisory Board, Canadian Research Knowledge Network
  • 2009-2010       Member, Board of Directors, Canadian Water Network (Network of Centres of Excellence)
  • 2008-2009       Review of the Pierre-Elliott Trudeau Foundation. Report co-authored with William Leggett and Elizabeth Dowdeswell
  • 2008-2010       Appointed by Treasury Board to Audit Committee, National Research Council of Canada
  • 2006-2010       Member, Board of Directors, Canadian Merit Scholarship Foundation
  • 2007-2008       Member, The Ottawa Partnership (TOP)
  • 2006-2008       Member, Ontario Research Innovation Council, Ministry of Research and Innovation
  • 2006-2008       Member, Board of Directors, “Regroupement des gens d’affaires de la région de la Capitale nationale”
  • 2005-2010       Member, Board of Directors, Ontario Centres of Excellence
  • 2004-2006       Member, The Ottawa Partnership (TOP)
  • 2002-2008       Member, Council, National Research Council of Canada and Member of the Audit Committee (2004-2008)
  • 2002-2008       Member, Board of Directors, Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation (OCRI) and Member of the Executive Committee (2004-2006)
  • 2001-2008       Member, Board of Directors, University of Ottawa Heart Institute
  • 2002-2004       Member, Board of Directors, British Columbia Freshwater Institute (BCFI)
  • 2001-2005       Associate Editor, Journal of Environmental Engineering and Science
  • 1999-2004       Member, Board of Directors, Vitesse Re-Skilling Canada Inc.
  • 1999-2002       Member, The Ottawa Partnership (TOP)
  • 1998-2002       NSERC – Member, Committee on Research Partnerships
  • 1999-2001       AECL – Member, Research and Development Committee
  • 1998-1999       NSERC, Member, IOF Review Committee
  • 1998                 NSERC, Review of Research Grant Appeals
  • 1998-2001       Member, Research Program Committee, Sustainable Forest Management Centre of Excellence
  • 1997                 Program Appraisal, Université de Sherbrooke
  • 1996                 External Reviewer, Civil Engineering Program, University of Western Ontario
  • 1995                 NSERC – Review of Research Grant Appeals (Civil, Mechanical, Ind. & Chemical Engineering)
  • 1995                 External evaluator – Graduate Program Civil Engineering (Université Laval)
  • 1995-99           Member, Board of Directors of OCRINet
  • 1994-98           Member, Board of Directors of TRIO
  • 1994                Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board, Vice-chair (Université Laval)
  • 1994                Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board, Vice-Chair (Ryerson Polytechnic University)
  • 1994                External evaluator, Graduate program in Civil Engineering, École Polytechnique de Montréal
  • 1994                NSERC. Review of Research Grant Appeals (Civil, Mechanical, Ind. & Chemical Engineering)
  • 1994                Member, NSERC Collaborative Projects Grant Committee
  • 1994                Member, Review panel for PRIMTAF – COGESULT
  • 1993-2001      Member, Board of directors, Hydromantis Holding Inc.
  • 1991                Member, US EPA Review Panel for the Establishment of Centres of Excellence
  • 1991                Member, NSERC – Centre Saint-Laurent Grant Selection Committee
  • 1991-2001      Member, Board of directors, Hydromantis, Inc.
  • 1991-93          Member, NSERC Industrial Research Chairs (UBC, Waterloo, UQAM)
  • 1989-1993      Member, NSERC Grant Selection Committee (06) – Chair of Committee 1991-92
  • 1988-91          Member US EPA Review Panel in Environmental Chemictsyr and Physics
  • 1989               Member, Review panel for the establishment of an Environmental Engineering program at UQAM
  • 1987               Member of the US EPA Hazardous Substance Committee for the establishment of Centres of Excellence