Wendy Leger

B.A. – Honours Physical Geography McMaster University

Wendy Leger is an Environmental Projects Coordinator with the Boundary Waters Issues Unit at the Canada Centre for Inland Waters, Environment Canada. She has extensive experience with large multi-disciplinary, multi-decision maker, and multi stakeholder Great Lakes water quantity/management related studies.  She began her career with Environment Canada in 1987 and over the past 20 years has worked in areas related to water resource management in the Great Lakes Basin as well as in areas of geographic information systems, information management, internet applications and shared vision planning.  She was an active participant in the International Joint Commission Levels Reference Study from 1987-1993 and gained significant background in multi-criteria evaluation methodologies. From 1993-1999 she oversaw the operations of the Ontario Region’s Geomatics Unit and  managed numerous GIS and Internet application projects both at Environment Canada and the Canadian Forest Service. She instigated the first regional web-site for Environment Canada in 1994. Most recently Ms. Leger has served as the federal lead on a Canada/Ontario Water Use and Supply Project for the Great Lakes Basin and as the Canadian Co-Chair of the Plan Formulation and Evaluation Group on the IJC Lake Ontario St. Lawrence River Study.