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Born in Saint Boniface, Manitoba, Canada, Ms. Sauv\u00e9 is currently acting as Director General of External Relations Directorate of Fisheries and Oceans Canada. She started her three-decade career in the Government of Canada as a biologist at Fisheries and Oceans Canada. Ms. Sauv\u00e9 represents Canada at numerous multilateral negotiations in marine biodiversity and ocean governance. In 2018, Ms. Sauv\u00e9 was Head of the Canadian Secretariat of the November Sustainable Blue Economy Conference held in Nairobi, co-hosted by the Government of Canada. In 2017, she was Canada\u2019s lead negotiator for the UN Ocean Conference \u201cCall to Action\u201d outcome document, as well as for the marine component of the 2002 World Summit of Sustainable Development.\u00a0 Ms. Sauv\u00e9 also led Canada\u2019s engagement in the Convention on Biological Diversity on marine issues. From 2014-2019, Ms. Sauv\u00e9 served as international Chair of the Arctic Council Working Group for the Protections of Arctic and Marine Environment (PAME).<\/p>\n
From 1994 to 2000, Ms. Sauv\u00e9 was a Foreign Service Officer in Canada\u2019s Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade.\u00a0 While there, she represented Canada in international fora, including UN Headquarters (New York) and UN Environment Program (Nairobi) on international environmental policy related to freshwater, marine and wildlife management files. In 1999 she was seconded to advise the provincial Government of British Columbia on the international export of bulk freshwater. Ms. Sauv\u00e9 holds a BSc degree in Natural Sciences from the University of Manitoba (1985) and resides in Ottawa, Canada with her family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":521,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-session","category-speakers"],"yoast_head":"\n