Rosa Galvez | |
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Senator for Bedford, Quebec | |
Assumed office December 6, 2016 | |
Nominated by | Justin Trudeau |
Appointed by | David Johnston |
Preceded by | Céline Hervieux-Payette |
Personal details | |
Born | Peru | June 21,1961
Political party | Independent Senators Group |
Alma mater | McGill University |
Profession | Environmental engineer Professor |
Rosa Galvez (born June 21,1961) [1] is a Canadian Senator from Quebec. At the time of her appointment,she was a professor at Laval University and head of the university's Department of Civil Engineering and Water Engineering. [2] Her appointment to the Senate was announced on November 2,2016.
Rosa Galvez was born in Peru. [3]
She is the oldest daughter of Elias Rogelio Galvez Rodriguez (a mathematician and professor at San Marcos University in Lima,Peru) and Juana Rosa Tantalean Angeles (accountant and teacher).
She first became interested in science when she chose to do a school assignment on pollution in Mexico City aged 10. She enjoyed researching a topic that was not talked about at the time. Her interest led her to go beyond library research when she reached out to her town's municipality to learn about local waste management. [4]
Galvez earned her Bachelor of Civil Engineering at the National University of Engineering in 1985. [5] After immigrating to Canada,she earned both her Master of Science (M.Sc.),Environmental Engineering Technology in 1989 and then her Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering in 1994 from McGill University. [5]
Galvez worked briefly for the Ministry of Housing in Lima,Peru and received professional training at CEDAPAL (water works for Lima) and CEPIS (Centro Panamericano de Ingenieria Sanitaria,of the WHO),before moving to Canada in March 1986.
From September 1986 to June 1994 while doing her master and Ph.D. studies at McGill she worked as research assistant and later as Research Associate at the Geotechnical Research Centre,Civil Eng. Department.
In 1994,Galvez joined the Department of Civil and Water Engineering at Laval University and became head of the department in 2010. Her academic research has focused on the area of pollution. [3] Her research achievements include advising on international issues such as the protection of the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River, [6] studying the oil spill of Lac-Mégantic rail disaster,conducting studies for the Government of the Northwest Territories on mining and lands sustainability and discussed cumulative impacts of a British Columbia hydroelectric project on the Mackenzie watershed. [7]
One of Galvez's hallmark research achievements was the study of the catastrophic oil spill at Lac-Mégantic. [8]
She advised the Commission for Environmental Cooperation on agreements between Canada and the United States and Quebec and Vermont on the protection of the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River. [8]
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Galvez was nominated to the Senate on December 6,2016,on the advice of Justin Trudeau,the Prime Minister of Canada. [1]
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