EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE / Christian Bertelsen (North)

Christian Bertelsen

Canadian Coast Guard, DFO

A proud northerner and public servant, Christian has nearly two decades of public service experience with federal, provincial and territorial governments. His life’s mission is to contribute to building a future Canada where Indigenous and non-Indigenous citizens alike see themselves recognized, reflected and fully represented.

Christian is the Regional Director of the Canadian Coast Guard’s Arctic Region where he has the privilege of working with Arctic partners to create a team that serves residents and conducts operations in the North, by the North and for the North.

Christian is an alumnus of the 2017 Governor General’s Canadian Leadership Conference, Banff Forum (2018) and a former Chair of the Northwest Territories Regional Group of the Institute of Public Administration of Canada. In his spare time, he also serves as a volunteer member of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation’s Application and Nomination Review Committee, supporting great Canadian scholarship.

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