Ca@eLA appoints Emily Poupart as Deputy Chief of Mission
Emily Poupart
 The Canadian team going to eLearning Africa at the end of May, 2007 has named Emily Claire Poupart as the deputy chief of its mission to Nairobi and Kenya. Currently the director of development for the Consortium for International Development in Education (CIDE) which is headquartered in Montreal, Poupart speaks English, French, and Spanish and she has studied Mandarin, Italian and Arabic.
In making the appointment, Lucien Bradet, the president of the Canadian Council on Africa noted “Emily Poupart is a great addition to the team leadership comprised of Gary Stairs, the mission chief, and Dr. Kenneth Keirstead, our senior Africa advisor. She is experienced in international development from her time at McGill where she co-founded the International Students Association. She also spent a semester in Panama as a consultant working on a study evaluating the resettlement options involved in the creation of a new watershed for the proposed expansion of the Panama Canal (including World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank policies).”
Emily Poupart’s abilities and experience as a team player are highlighted by her achievements rowing for Canada at the Commonwealth regatta in 2002 where her crew took two gold and one silver, as a ski instructor and assistant director of Lakeshore Ski Club, and as a volunteer for the McGill Office for Students with Disabilities and Rock Solid, an anti youth violence organization.
Poupart, who is from the Saguenay – Lac St-Jean region of Quebec is a graduate of McGill (BA in Political Science), the University of Victoria (MA in Conflict Analysis and Dispute Resolution), and Oxford Brookes (LLM International Public Law, Rhodes Scholar 2003).
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