Board of Directors

As per the General and Vocational Colleges Act, Vanier College is governed by a Board of Directors. Our board is composed of 19 volunteers stemming from different sectors within the broad higher education community. Depending on their seat, board members are elected or named for a one, two or three year term.

Vanier's board meetings are held Tuesday evenings, about eight times a year.  

Board members

  • Haig Basmajian, Chair, Career Program Graduate
  • Lydia Cappelli,  Vice-Chair, Socio Economic
  • Benoit Morin, Director General (Ex-Officio)
  • Sandrina Joseph, Academic Dean (Ex-Officio)
  • Regine Alende Tshombokongo, Socio Economic
  • Gillian Nycum, University
  • Anna Sanalitro, School Board
  • Nadia Gioia, Labour Market Partners
  • Cindy Ho, Business Community
  • Hugues Charbonneau, Business Community
  • Daniel Seguin, Pre-University Graduate
  • Melanie DeSouza, Parent
  • Spiros Kalantzis, Parent
  • Anne Martyn, Career Program Student
  • Mehtab Jawanda, Pre-University Student
  • Sevak Manjikian, Faculty
  • Mark Cohen, Faculty
  • Aishwarya Nair, Non-Teaching Professional
  • Reuven Brody, Support Personnel

Executive Committee

  • Benoit Morin, Chair
  • Haig Basmajian
  • Lydia Cappelli
  • Sevak Manjikian
  • Aishwarya Nair
  • Mehtab Jawanda
  • Vacant

Vanier employees looking for motion templates should visit the Corporate Affairs SharePoint site (accessible to Vanier employees only).

Upcoming meetings

Announcements