Marie-France Houle

 26 years of experience in environmental research and analysis, multilateral negotiations, policy dialogue facilitation, impact assessments and evaluation, results based planning, project design, implementation, and evaluation.  15+ years of engineering and environmental project design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation experience with the private sector in Canada, Nepal and Haiti.  6+ years of experience of leading research, assessment and evaluation of envrionmental impacts with Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), ensuring alignment of international assistance projects with CIDA’s departmental priorities in various geo-political environments.  Demonstrated experience providing support, advice, briefings, speaking points to Ministers, senior officials, diplomats, and other stakeholders on strategic, and geo-political issues related to Canadian and departmental objectives on environment and climate change.  Led the development of the Environment and Climate