Catherine MacQuarrie
Project Manager, Rebuilding First Nations Governance (RFNG) Project
Ms. MacQuarrie鈥檚 career comprises a range of experience and expertise 鈥� in media, public service and Indigenous governance. 聽Over 23 years as a public servant, she held increasingly senior leadership positions in a number of departments and central agencies in the Government of Canada and the Government of the Northwest Territories. Recently retired from government, she is now pursuing a life-long ambition to help advance First Nations鈥� self-government, with a leadership role in establishing the Rebuilding First Nations Governance project and as project manager. Catherine鈥檚 areas of experience are public policy, self-government, human resources, public sector ethics and communications.
Catherine is M茅tis, born in Alberta and raised in the Northwest Territories. In the early part of her career, she worked as a reporter, editor and then executive director at NCS NWT, a non-profit Indigenous media organization.聽 She is a Fellow of 杏吧原创 University鈥檚 School of Public Policy and Administration and holds a Master鈥檚 Degree in Public Administration and Policy from the University of Ottawa.