Partnership Africa Canada - About Us

Staff

Bernard Taylor
Executive Director
btaylor@pacweb.org

Josée Létourneau
Director of Finance and Administration
jletourneau@pacweb.org

Alan Martin
Research Director - Natural Resources
amartin@pacweb.org

Joanne Lebert
Director - Great Lakes Programme
jlebert@pacweb.org

Ousmane Dème
Coordinator of Publish What You Pay - Canada
odeme@pwyp.ca

Kady Seguin
Programme Analyst - PWYP / PAC
kseguin@pwyp.ca

Bernard Taylor
Bernard Taylor is Executive Director of Partnership Africa Canada. In the early 1990s, he was a Programme Officer with PAC when the organization managed a large project fund for Africa. Previously, he worked for eight years with NGOs in rural and urban Africa - in Ethiopia, Burkina Faso, Mali and Senegal – as a volunteer and in managing volunteer technical programmes. He has visited all of Africa’s regions in the course of his work. He co-authored a study of northern Somalia in 1999: Peace and Development in Northern Somalia - Opportunities and Challenges.

Josée Létourneau
Josée Létourneau is Director of finance and administration for Partnership Africa Canada. She brings to PAC a strong background in finance and administration within a variety of non-profit organizations as well as experience as the president, secretary, and treasurer of a Board of Directors. She created and participated in international internships to Togo, Mali, Nicaragua and Spain. She was also a volunteer with CECI in Nepal for two years during which time she worked with the Nepalese government on water supply systems for the rural Himalayan regions.

Alan Martin
Alan Martin is the Research Director at Partnership Africa Canada. Prior to joining PAC in June 2010, Alan worked as a staffer to a political leader on Parliament Hill in Ottawa for four years. He also spent over a decade working as a journalist in Canada, the UK and various countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Born and raised in Southern Africa, he holds a Masters degree in conflict and development from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London.

Joanne Lebert
Joanne is the Director of the Great Lakes Programme at Partnership Africa Canada. Prior to joining PAC in 2011, Joanne was based at the University of Ottawa’s Human Rights Research and Education Centre, where she developed and supported research and policy advocacy related to gender-based sexual violence in conflict settings in Africa, and examined its intersections with the extractive industries. Joanne was also Deputy Director at Peacebuild, where she worked to strengthen Canadian foreign policy options and practice. Joanne completed extensive anthropological fieldwork in Namibia and Angola. Prior to commencing her PhD, she was a Visiting Fellow in Refugee Studies at the University of Oxford. She has lectured at Carleton University and worked for the OSCE in Bosnia-Herzegovina & Croatia, Amnesty International, CARE International-Zambia, CANADEM and Africa Files.

Ousmane Dème
Ousmane Déme is the Director of the Publish What You Pay - Canada coalition. He is also currently completing a PhD in International Relations at the School of Political Studies of the University of Ottawa. His doctoral research is on the role of World Bank in the Chad-Cameroon oil project. He has worked with Partnership Africa Canada as a researcher on the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM). In 2005, PAC published his study Between Hope and Scepticism: Civil society and the African Peer Review Mechanism. He recently prepared a training Manual on the APRM for the UN Economic Commission for Africa. He worked previously with the Ema Invest Foundation in Geneva, where he was responsible for the Partnerships and Investment in Africa department, and for the local government of Geneva as a social advisor for African refugee claimants.

Kady Seguin
Kady Seguin is a Programme Analyst with Partnership Africa Canada. She is leading the Publish What You Pay-Canada Capacity Building Project for African civil society PWYP members, and PAC’s work on the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights. Kady holds a M.A. in the field of Globalization and International Development from the University of Ottawa. Her research focused on the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights, a multistakeholder initiative in the area of security and human rights in the extractive sector. While completing her M.A. programme, she worked with the Centre for International Policy Studies (CIPS) in the University of Ottawa.