Jeanne E. Inch

Director General and CEO Canadian Conservation Institute Department of Canadian Heritage Jeanne Inch was appointed Director General and CEO of the Canadian Conservation Institute (CCI) in June 2004. Ms. Inch has a varied professional background, having worked in government, academe and the private sector, and in various arenas, including journalism, public relations and fundraising, innovation policy development, university research, and international policy and programming.

From 1992 to 2003, Ms. Inch held increasingly responsible positions at the Department of Industry Canada. As a Director in the Innovation Policy Branch, she was responsible for economic analysis of the innovative performance of firms; policy development in the areas of commercialization of research, technology clusters and technology transfer; and international science and technology policy and operations. For four years, she was Canada’s representative on science and technology committees of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris and of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum. Before joining the Innovation Policy Branch, Ms. Inch was the Project Manager for the APEC SME Business Forum and Exposition, which brought over 3000 SMEs (small, medium enterprises) from across the Asia-Pacific region to Ottawa in 1997. She received the Government of Canada Merit Award (1997) for this work. Previous positions at Industry Canada were as an analyst in the University Research Policy Directorate; the policy advisor to the Assistant Deputy Minister for Industry and Science Policy; and the senior officer responsible for departmental and ministerial consultations.

Before joining the Government of Canada, Ms. Inch was the project manager for the Canadian Committee on Women in Engineering (CCWE), a public–private sector committee that examined and made recommendations regarding the environment for and participation of women in engineering.

Ms. Inch worked for several years as an editor and information officer at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton. In 1987, she was recognized by the Canadian Council for the Advancement of Education with the 1987 Communication Award for Best Achievement in Research Writing. She began her career in Western Canada as a journalist, focussing on health and education issues.

Ms. Inch has a Bachelor of Arts (Canadian History and Literature) from Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick. She is a graduate of the Management Development Program for Women at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, and has a Certificate of Accreditation in Public Relations (1993) from the Canadian Public Relations Society.

September 2004