List of Members

Members render decisions on refugee claims and appeals, admissibility hearings, detention reviews and immigration appeals.

Please note that this list is updated periodically and may not reflect recent changes.

Refugee Protection Division
  • Roula Eatrides, Deputy Chairperson
  • Jennifer Friberg, Director, Program Management
  • John Szekula, Assistant Deputy Chairperson, Eastern Region
  • Catherine Smith, Assistant Deputy Chairperson, Central Region
  • Preeti Adhopia, Assistant Deputy Chairperson, Western Region
  • Sarah Côté, Assistant Deputy Chairperson, Task Force for Less Complex Claims (TFLCC) and Gender-Related Task Force (GRTF)
  • Simon Labrecque, Assistant Deputy Chairperson, National Operations
  • Reid Rossi, Lead Coordinating Member, Task Force on Strategic Initiatives (TFSI)
  • Marie-Chantale Smith, Director, Business Management

Eastern Region

  • Aber, Imad
  • Alarcon, Krystle
  • Anastasio, Massimo
  • Arango, Heidy Melissa 
  • Asselin, Valérie
  • Bardin, Anne
  • Bélair, Milène
  • Béland-Arsenault, Alexandre
  • Bélice, Emmanuelle
  • Bergevin, Cynthia
  • Bernier, Richard
  • Bethune, Ted
  • Binette, Geneviève
  • Boissonneault, Christian
  • Bossou, Rose
  • Bretholz, Samantha
  • Carmona Pena, Ileana
  • Castanger, Marc-Olivier
  • Chahine, Péguy
  • Chaput, Francis
  • Chokri, Mehdi Laurent
  • Constantin, Darius Andrei
  • Cote, Charles
  • Cox, Robert
  • Cromp, Michèle-Andrée
  • Daigle, Mélanie
  • Dang, Kenny
  • Décarie, Marc
  • Dortelus, Harry 
  • Dunbar Tobin, Kristen
  • Durig, Magali
  • Elie, Trisha
  • Estebeteguy, Bruno 
  • Farhat, Nour El-Sabah
  • Ferguson, Debbie
  • Fournier, Sylvain 
  • Francoeur, Virginie
  • Gauthier, Pierre
  • Glasgow-Tremblay, Caroline
  • Grenier, Guillaume
  • Gtari, Rim
  • Guarino, Angelina
  • Guarino, Loredana
  • Guertin, Yasmine-Alexandre
  • Hachey, Yanik
  • Hamelin, Michel
  • Hashey, Gerald
  • Hébert, Stéphane
  • Henri, Pherguisson
  • Hernandez, Claudia
  • Houle, Linda
  • Hutter, Thiago
  • Jacques, Darin
  • Jam, Jean-Guy
  • Jean, Luna-Martine
  • Joseph, Ralph Henry
  • Kaur, Harsimran
  • Kelly-Rheaume, Elsa
  • Kourane, Linda
  • Kucharsky, Judith
  • La, Jacqueline
  • Labranche, Sonia
  • Lachance, Adrien
  • Ladouceur, Laurianne 
  • Lafontaine, Catherine
  • Langelier, Michelle
  • Lapalme, Julie
  • Larouche, Camille
  • Lashley, Anthony
  • Lebel, Guy
  • Leblond-Ménard, Arianne
  • Lemay-Roche, Alexandre
  • Lemieux, Patrick
  • Li, Danajing (Dana)
  • Loizou, Melissa
  • Lussier, Alexandre
  • Magloire, Kathleen Andrée
  • Magny, Ariane
  • Mankovitz, Deborah
  • Marotta, Maria
  • Moungounga, Clarisse
  • Ngambi, Joseph
  • Noel-Bisson, Geneviève
  • Nteziryayo, Fides Paulin
  • Omeziri, Eric
  • Panajotov, Plamen
  • Papadakis, Angela
  • Parker, Linda
  • Percevault, Elsa Anna
  • Pham, Hai-Yen
  • Philbert, Alexiane
  • Puglia, Vincent
  • Ramacieri, Donna
  • Ramirez Linares, Susan Elianeth
  • Richard, Hélène 
  • Riikonen, Tanja
  • Ristovski, Boryan
  • Rodrigue, Melissa
  • Roy-L'Ecuyer, Myriam
  • Sabourin, Catherine
  • Sambe, Mariam
  • Savoie, Francois
  • Senghor, Sophie
  • Silva, Samantha
  • Smith, Maya
  • Solyom, Catherine
  • Soma, Carine
  • Taillefer, Eric
  • Thompson, James
  • Tremblay, Pierrette
  • Tshisungu, Wa Tshisungu Jose
  • Vaillancourt, Marie-Sophie
  • Yelle, Liza

  

Central Region

  • Aciro, Shirley
  • Adetuberu, Ayobowale
  • Adolph, Carolyn 
  • Aina, Olusola
  • Akawi, Mona
  • Akenroye, Alero 
  • Akhtar, Muhammad Saleem 
  • Albay, Mustafa
  • Al-Zaidi, Sayyid-Ali
  • Androutsos, Tina
  • Arkinson, Brandon
  • Ayow, Kelsey
  • Bafaro, Robert 
  • Balakrishnan, Suraj
  • Beresford, Katherine
  • Berkovits, Joseph
  • Blackwood, Kayla
  • Borcsok, Thomas
  • Bortei, Nathali
  • Bosede, Oluwabunmi Abosede
  • Bosveld, Edward
  • Bouchard, Josée
  • Bourassa, Marcelle
  • Bragues, Victoria
  • Brikha, Rozlien
  • Bruce, Catherine
  • Bugby, Kim
  • Buie, Jean
  • Bukhari, Hussain
  • Bunbury, Rachel
  • Caraoshi, Luljeta
  • Cardoso, Avril
  • Casimiro, Allan Eugene S.
  • Charow, Sarah
  • Chatterji, Aurina
  • Chern, Ziunn Yow
  • Chin, Warren
  • Cohen, Dylan
  • Cohen, Gregory
  • Colle, Larry
  • Coyne, Deborah
  • Crowhurst, Timothy
  • Da Silva, Anthony
  • Daligadu, Nanette
  • Daramola, Olamide
  • De Leon, Maria Cristina
  • Di Noto, Eva
  • Dimitrijevic, Zorana
  • Doljac, Nada
  • Dookun, Michelle
  • Dosanjh, Jaskarun
  • Eberhard, Julaine
  • Egboka, Ogoamaka
  • Enwesi, Boma
  • Eshiokwu, Bukola (Abby)
  • Favreau, Leonard
  • Fleming, Michael
  • Flynn, Roderick
  • Ford, Katherine
  • Fox, Dorothy
  • Garner, Adam
  • Gayda, Melinda
  • Gebrenegus-Kidane, Sarah
  • Genjaga, Kristina
  • Gentile, Louis
  • Gibson, Kathleen
  • Gongora, Paola
  • Gonzalez, Cesar
  • Green, Alesha
  • Green, Tricia
  • Gueller, Paulina
  • Gural, Christina
  • Hamat, Dena
  • Hammond, Tyler
  • Harrison, Christopher
  • Hayes, Marnie
  • Hitayezu-Fall, Diane
  • Idem, Gladys
  • Ikpeni, Theresa
  • Ilori, Solape
  • Israel, Milton
  • Israelstam, Gregory
  • Jackson, Ruth
  • Jeon, Alice
  • Joffe, Kerri
  • Junor, Leah
  • Karambelas, Panteleimon (Peter)
  • Kean, Dana
  • Kebede, Dagmawi
  • Kerezova, Mihaela
  • Khamsi, Khamissa
  • Kim, Jiyoung
  • Kim, Ryan
  • Kinsella, Christopher
  • Kissoon, Priya
  • Kivlichan, John
  • Kloepfer, Megan
  • Koh, Brian Hyunhoo
  • Krueger, Ryan
  • Kushner, Jeffrey
  • Lasseigne, John
  • Le Blanc, Nicholas
  • Lee, Ciara Delia
  • Lee, Emerald
  • Letheren, Laurie
  • Lipton, Maria
  • Liu, Qi 
  • Lloyd, Brenda
  • Loft, Shelby
  • Long, Richard
  • Lu, Ha
  • Luck, Graeme
  • Macdonald, Devin
  • MacDonald, Katherine
  • Macdonald, Vicki
  • Maguire, Devin
  • Mahmood, Sanaa 
  • Marcovitch, Daniel
  • Martin, Dahron
  • Mashkuri, Sudabeh
  • Maziarz, Teresa
  • Mekhael, Randa
  • Mengesha, Mewded
  • Moc, Marcela
  • Moffat-Vallée, Rebecca
  • Mohammed, Ehab
  • Moore, Gillian
  • Morgan, Sarah 
  • Mukhija, Navjeet (Nancy)
  • Neufeld, Vicky
  • Nicholson, Tyler
  • Norman, Jessica
  • Nwachukwu, Olachi
  • Odum, Ogem
  • Ogunpolu, Folu
  • Ogunwomoju, Ekundayo
  • Okakpu, Peter
  • Okesola, Aderemi
  • Okoronkwo, Uchenna
  • Olabode, Ibidunni
  • Omoregie, Amanda
  • Oridota, Olasubomi
  • Pavlova, Radostina
  • Perhan, Zhanna
  • Petrov, Mariyan
  • Qi, Selena
  • Quadri, Adedeji
  • Rajaian, Samin
  • Rasool, Jonathan
  • Robertson, Nadine
  • Robinson, Miranda
  • Rosiji, Ibidapo Olaolu
  • Rossi, Reid
  • Russell, Patrick
  • Russell, Tiisetso
  • Ruthven, Cameron
  • Ryan, Geneviève
  • Sadiq-Soneye, Moyosore
  • Samaroo, Nigel
  • Santos, Selina
  • Sarwat, Faraz
  • Savage, Harvey
  • Scheinert, Josh
  • Schwarz, Philip 
  • Seevaratnam, Sashika
  • Senese, Lindsay Campbell
  • Sethi, Arjan
  • Shaffer, Ashley
  • Shaibu, Ayoni
  • Shamoun, Daphne
  • Sharma, Kirti
  • Sheehan, Katelyn
  • Silverman, Stephanie
  • Silvestri, Brittany
  • Simonian, Daniel
  • Simpson, Kelly
  • Sokolov, Victor
  • Somers, Michael
  • Stajic, Danijela
  • Stan, Cornelia
  • Stringer, Evan
  • Stuart, Billie-Jo
    • Stumpf, Matthew
  • Thomas, Tamara
  • Trevelyan, Lindsey
  • Treviranus, Barbara
  • Udechukwu, Chioma
  • Udeze, Adaeze
  • Unanyan, Lusine
  • Utake, Aderinmola
  • Vasan, Maethinie
  • Vega, Maria
  • Volpentesta, Berto 
  • Walker, Janet
  • Wasserman, Jaclyn
  • Weston, Matthew 
  • Whitelock, Katherine
  • Williams, Shatyra
  • Wong, Jessica
  • Woodworth, Jennifer
  • Zeng, Sally
 

Western Region

  • Adeleke, Adetola
  • Akintunde, Iseoluwa
  • Anjorin, Abdul-Ghaniy
  • Bainbridge, Kaitlin
  • Bandan, Parveen
  • Benest, Rebecca Hannah
  • Bhinder, Aman
  • Bilkevitch, Kate
  • Bislimi, Faton (Tony)
  • Blain, Darrin
  • Bogojevic, Katarina
  • Bower, Nick
  • Carreno, Kylee
  • Chauhan, Sandeep
  • Chehrazi, Aida
  • Cortes-Diaz, Tania
  • Cryer, Douglas
  • Cundal, Kerry
  • Elsdon, Joel
  • Ezechikwelu, Emenike
  • Farmer, Lorna
  • Fowlie, Frank
  • Fox, Michal
  • Fullerton, Delano
  • Goh, Ung Shen
  • Gray, Hannah
  • Hatch, Alannah
  • Hong, Hoang-Mai
  • Ile, Precious
  • Jones, David
  • Kahlon, Amritpal Singh
  • Kammerer, Megan
  • Kazieva, Tereza
  • Kefalas, Kalliopi
  • Khan, Azhar
  • Kim, Kevin
  • Kim, Seung Hwan
  • Kolawole, Olalekan
  • Krause, Leanna
  • Lalach, Lauren
  • Locke, August
  • Mann, Alexandra
  • Marcotte, Anika
  • Marinelli, Lea
  • Martens, Stefan
  • McCormack, Nichola
  • Mensink, Jennifer
  • Molgat, Miryam
  • Moreno, Julie
  • Muljar, Ramona
  • Nash, Corey
  • Nauman, Milica
  • Ngo, Sarah
  • Nguyen, Duy
  • Odigie, Osehise Lawretta
  • Oh, Soya
  • Ojeleye, Olukunle
  • Olatunji, Ademiju
  • Olson, Alexander
  • Ouchakov, Zonia
  • Pannu, Alexander
  • Parandeh, Ali
  • Peterson, Geraldine
  • Pezzutto, Amanda
  • Predovic, Janko
  • Price, Christine
  • Pridgeon, Jennifer Lucy
  • Rak, Andriy
  • Sangha, Nicole
  • Sangha, Sukhpal
  • Sayyari, Persia
  • Schmalzbauer, Jodie
  • Sherwood, Charles (Logan)
  • Shoyombo, Adeyemi
  • Smith, Jennifer
  • Smith-Gander, Pamela
  • Somers, Shaina
  • Stiglich, Tiara
  • Vellani, Fayyaz
  • Wong, Cindy
  • Yorgun, Siobhan
  • Zilm, Graham

  

Ottawa

  • Adebayo-Razak, Ojuolape
  • Adeyemo, Ayodele
  • Anctil, Emilie
  • Ang, David
  • Brunot, Alexandra
  • Cantor, Kevin
  • Carens-Nedelsky, Daniel 
  • Choucrallah, Marina
  • Chung, Alex
  • Dumitrescu Jelea, Anca
  • Dzuali, Torwoli 
  • Fitzgerald, Peter Paul
  • Fournier, Christian
  • Gagnon, Christine
  • Gaul, Isabelle
  • Hajam, Nadia
  • Iyortyer, Hembadoon
  • Kalamadeen, Safiyyah
  • Kramo, Claude
  • Kwofie, Abbas
  • Lewis-Murray, Latoya
  • Marcotte Bouthillier, Maxime
  • Montague, Andrew
  • Moreno, Gloria
  • Ondongo, Jany
  • Patterson, Jeannette
  • Pitre, Jason
  • Ponce Tamayo, Felisa
  • Rego, Warren
  • Reis, Roberto
  • Richmond, Meredith
  • Rumsey, Carolyn
  • Shanmuganathan, Kasthuri
  • Sobretodo, Dodie
  • Strickland, John
  • Tasnim, Asheka
  • Touré, Aminata
  • Traves, Brad
  • Umeh, Uchechi
  • Vlavonou, Gino
  • Walker, Brendan 
  • Walker, Sabrina 

  
 
Refugee Appeal Division
  • Suzanne Gilbert, Deputy Chairperson
  • Laura Brittain, Assistant Deputy Chairperson, Eastern Region (Ottawa)
  • Roxane Vachon, Assistant Deputy Chairperson, Eastern Region (Montréal)
  • Erin Bobkin, Acting Assistant Deputy Chairperson, Central Region
  • Jody Brennan, Assistant Deputy Chairperson, Western Region

Eastern Region (Montréal)

  • Al-Salem, Rouba
  • Beaubien, Virginie
  • Beauchesne, Mathieu
  • Bissonnette, Alain
  • Colin, Michel
  • Connat, Agnès
  • Corry, Julie
  • Cote, David
  • Dahan, Julie
  • Djerroud, Salima
  • Doyle, Elaine (Part-time)
  • Durocher, Martine
  • Fontaine, Alexandre
  • Gauthier, Charles
  • Jedid, Toni
  • Kagabo, Amandine
  • Khalifa, Reisa
  • Lamani, Mokhtar
  • Leduc, Normand (Part-time)
  • Lefebvre, Jolyane
  • Leon Foun Lin, Danielle
  • Musto, Marisa
  • Parizeau, Isabelle
  • Pickel, Jo-Anne
  • Plouffe-Malette, Kristine (Part-time)
  • Rabot, Philippe
  • Roberts, Ayanna
  • Saidi, Ezzeddine
  • Sheitoyan, Richard
  • Simixhiu, Iris
  • Song, Anne
  • Suciu, Bianca
  • Tétreault, Anne-Thierrie
  • Thibault, Marie-Lyne
  • Vaezmir, Laudan
  

Central Region

  • Anderson, Colin
  • Andrews, Tanya
  • Basa, Rosemary
  • Carter-Whitney, Maureen (Part-time)
  • DeWolfe, Matthew
  • Doherty, Adam
  • Farha, Soraya (Part-time)
  • Ferguson, Nathan
  • Foreman, Kimberley
  • Gallant, Jacqueline
  • Gibbs, Carol-Ann
  • Hart, Linda
  • Kaderali, Zahra
  • Katz, Sandra
  • Krajcovic, Linda
  • Lindberg, Caroline
  • Louis, Rebecca
  • Madden, Michael
  • McGovern, Karen
  • McKenzie, Mary (Part-time)
  • Mohan, Dilani
  • Morris, David
  • Oh, Matthew
  • Pollock, Jennifer
  • Qureshi, Kiran (Part-time)
  • Rashid, Rafeena
  • Sierra, Amanda
  • Sloan, James
  • Stratigopoulos, Ron
  • Thompson, Sybil
  • Wallace, Karen
  • Zuk, Stephanie

  

Western Region

  • Acton, Tess
  • Aggarwala, Rita (Part-time) (Calgary)
  • Bousfield, Joel
  • Braden, Cheryl
  • Card, Thomas
  • Dobson-Hamilton, Tracey-Ann
  • Dodsworth, John
  • Faber, Paula
  • Fortney, Douglas (Part-time)
  • Gardiner, Michael (Part-time)
  • Jampolsky, Fia
  • Kaufman, Neil
  • Ko, Laura
  • Lee, Monica
  • Liberman, Ron
  • Lourenco, Jessica
  • Muldoon, Paul
  • Murata, Jessica
  • Polowek, Kim (Part-time)
  • Poole, Andrea
  • Prowse, Chad
  • Qadeer, Nadra
  • Seyan, Ravninder
  • Singh, Inderpreet
  • Sugg, Brian
  • Thorne, Darren
  • Vermette, Derek (Calgary)
  • Wyger, Joseph (Part-time)

  

Eastern Region (Ottawa)

  • Adams, Desiree
  • Aubin, Pascale
  • Broad, Patricia
  • Brown, Susan
  • Colella, Laura
  • Delibasic, Hana
  • Drolet, Caroline
  • Guerrier, Guerlain
  • Helis, John
  • Henri, Murielle (Part-time)
  • Hersh, Nicholas
  • Kennedy, Alison
  • Khan, Rana
  • Khan, Saira
  • Ladouceur, Nicole (Part-time)
  • Lail, Jagdip
  • Lehr, Sabine
  • Maxwell, Caitlin
  • McDermott, Charles (Part-time)
  • McQuade, Charlotte
  • Moore, Jennifer
  • Ouellet, Daphnée
  • Pérusse, Marc
  • Pike, Katrina
  • Prowse, Joshua
  • Ryan, Julie
  • Schroeder, Kari
  • Schweitzer, Toni
  • Smith, Aaron
  • Smith, Conor
  • Soukoreff, Monica
  • Thompson, Paula (Part-time)
  • Willard, Diana

 
 
Immigration Division
  • Greg Kipling, Deputy Chairperson
  • Heather Gibbs, Assistant Deputy Chairperson, Central Region
  • Isabelle Germain, Assistant Deputy Chairperson, Eastern Region
  • Alice Tang, Assistant Deputy Chairperson, Western Region
  • Mary Heyes, Coordinating Member, Central Region
  • Madona Mokbel, Acting Coordinating Member, Central Region
  • , Acting Coordinating Member, Eastern Region
  • Kareitha Osborne, Acting Coordinating Member, Western Region

Eastern Region

  • Clément, Daphnée
  • Dumoulin, Yves
  • Evelyn, Genna
  • Filiatrault, Maxime
  • Fontaine-Pagé, Sarah
  • Friedman, Ethan
  • Froment-Gateau, Sophie
  • Jadue,Cristian
  • Khalil, Jessica
  • Lemaine, Annie
  • Meleras, Michèle

  

Central Region

  • Akbari, Pargana
  • Barry, Aminata
  • Chen, Jia
  • Dickenson, Kirk
  • Greenwood, Karen
  • Gunn, Britt
  • Hennebury, Karri-Lynn
  • Henrique, Karina
  • Huys, Julia
  • Jegatheesan, Aravinth
  • Kohler, Iris
  • Manghat, Azeem
  • Marcinkiewicz, Christopher
  • McCabe, Jean-Marc
  • McKeown, Daniel
  • McLellan, Alexis
  • Mohamed, Maleeka
  • Palmer, Angelique
  • Smyth, Kristen
  • Tempier, Claire
 

Western Region

  • Cook, Trent
  • Fairey, Vanessa
  • Gladwish, Ashley
  • Gulamhussein, Natasha
  • Lalji, Azeem
  • McPhalen, Michael
  • Mortenson, Andrew
  • Puddicombe, Warren
  • Ross, Murray
  • Slivinski, Judith
  • Worsfold, Heidi
  • Zuk, Colleen
 

  
Immigration Appeal Division
  • Caroline Labranche, Acting Deputy Chairperson
  • Annie Lafleur, Acting Assistant Deputy Chairperson, Eastern Region
  • Tsering Sergong, Assistant Deputy Chairperson, Central Region

  • Linda Taylor, Assistant Deputy Chairperson, Western Region

Eastern Region

  • Alary, Suzanne
  • Cordisco, Philippe
  • Côté, Roch
  • Féquière, Linda
  • Paris-Boukdjaja, Myriam
  • Stanners, Roxane

  

Central Region

  • Dolin, Benjamin
  • Gaudet, Catherine
  • Geer, Dreeni
  • Jung, Alice
  • Loeb, Samuel
  • Mia, Ziyaad
  • Mutch, Stuart (Part-time)
  • Osunde, Isoken
  • Richards, Lloyd
  • Rodriguez, Bianca
  • Shepherd, Harold
  • Wagner, Julie
  

Western Region

  • Anselm, Annette
  • Belloc-Pinder, Leslie (Part-time)
  • Costantino, Craig
  • Ferrari, Mark (Part-time)
  • Kingma, Maryanne (Calgary)
  • Pinto, Stephanie (Calgary)
  • Rempel, Geoffrey
  • Tucci, Daniel
 
 

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