Elysa Vaillancourt – en

Elysa holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from HEC Montréal and completed a Master’s degree in International Studies at the Université de Montréal, focusing more specifically on the monitoring and evaluation of climate change adaptation projects on the international scene.

Her master’s degree enabled her to complete an internship at the Quebec Government’s Ministère de l’Environnement et de la Lutte contre les changements climatiques, which ended with a job as a climate change advisor. Her work at the Ministry focused mainly on the monitoring and evaluation of projects funded by the International Climate Cooperation Program as well as the strategic improvement of the program.

Elysa is now Coordinator of the Youth Sector, where she leads the implementation and development of the ISW-SWE youth strategy.