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
  • Alice Tang, Assistant Deputy Chairperson, Western Region
  • Simon Labrecque, Assistant Deputy Chairperson, National Operations
  • Reid Rossi, Assistant Deputy Chairperson, Expedited Cases
  • Marie-Chantale Smith, Director, Business Management

Eastern Region

  • Aber, Imad
  • Alarcon, Krystle
  • Anastasio, Massimo
  • Andone, Viorela Domnita
  • Arango, Heidy Melissa 
  • Asselin, Valérie
  • Bardin, Anne
  • Bélair, Milène
  • Béland-Arsenault, Alexandre
  • Bethune, Ted
  • Binette, Geneviève
  • Boissonneault, Christian
  • Bossou, Rose
  • Bretholz, Samantha
  • Castagner, Marc-Olivier
  • Chahine, Péguy
  • Chaput, Francis
  • Chokri, Mehdi Laurent
  • Constantin, Darius Andrei
  • Cote, Charles
  • Côté, Gabrielle
  • Côté, Sarah
  • Cox, Robert
  • Cromp, Michèle-Andrée
  • Dang, Kenny
  • Décarie, Marc
  • Dortelus, Harry
  • Doutre, Linda
  • Durig, Magali
  • Elie, Trisha
  • Estebeteguy, Bruno 
  • Farhat, Nour El-Sabah
  • Ferguson, Debbie
  • Fernandez-Nys, Sebastien
  • Fournier, Sylvain 
  • Francoeur, Virginie
  • Gauthier, Pierre
  • Gtari, Rim
  • Grenier, Guillaume
  • Guarino, Angelina
  • Guarino, Loredana
  • Guertin, Yasmine-Alexandre
  • Hachey, Yanik
  • Hamelin, Michael
  • Hashey, Gerald
  • Hébert, Stéphane
  • Henri, Pherguisson
  • Hernandez, Claudia
  • Houle, Linda
  • Hutter, Thiago
  • Jacques, Darin
  • Jam, Jean-Guy
  • Joseph, Ralph Henry
  • Kaur, Harsimran
  • Kourane, Linda
  • Kucharsky, Judith
  • La, Jacqueline
  • Labranche, Sonia
  • Lachance, Adrien
  • Ladouceur, Laurianne 
  • Lafontaine, Catherine
  • Langelier, Michelle
  • Larouche, Camille
  • Lemay-Roche, Alexandre
  • Lemieux, Patrick
  • Li, Danajing (Dana)
  • Loizou, Melissa
  • Lussier, Alexandre
  • Magloire, Kathleen Andrée
  • Magny, Ariane
  • Mandl, Anthony
  • Marotta, Maria
  • Moungounga, Clarisse
  • Ngambi, Joseph
  • Nteziryayo, Fides Paulin
  • Omeziri, Eric
  • Panajotov, Plamen
  • Papadakis, Angela
  • Parker, Linda
  • Pénisson, Lise
  • Percevault, Elsa Anna
  • Pham, Hai-Yen
  • Philbert, Alexiane
  • Puglia, Vincent
  • Ramacieri, Donna
  • Ramsay, François
  • Richard, Hélène 
  • Riikonen, Tanja
  • Ristovski, Boryan
  • Rodrigue, Melissa
  • Roy-L'Ecuyer, Myriam
  • Sabourin, Catherine
  • Savoie, Francois
  • Senghor, Sophie
  • Silawo, Serge
  • Silva, Samantha
  • Slaoui, Nadia
  • Smith, Maya
  • Solyom, Catherine
  • Soma, Carine
  • Taillefer, Eric
  • Thompson, James
  • Tremblay, Pierrette
  • Vaillancourt, Marie-Sophie
  • Yelle, Liza

      

Central Region

  • Aciro, Shirley
  • Adebayo, Adebola
  • Adetuberu, Ayobowale
  • Adolph, Carolyn 
  • Akawi, Mona
  • Akenroye, Alero 
  • Akhtar, Muhammad Saleem 
  • Al-Zaidi, Sayyid-Ali
  • Androutsos, Tina
  • Arkinson, Brandon
  • Ayow, Kelsey
  • Bafaro, Robert 
  • Balakrishnan, Suraj
  • Beatty, Matthew
  • Beresford, Katherine
  • Berkovits, Joseph
  • Blackwood, Kayla
  • Bonhomme, Simone Lynn
  • Borcsok, Thomas
  • Bortei, Nathali
  • Bosede, Oluwabunmi Abosede
  • Bourassa, Marcelle
  • Bragues, Victoria
  • Brikha, Rozlien
  • Bruce, Catherine
  • Bugby, Kim
  • Buie, Jean
  • Bunbury, Rachel
  • Campbell, James
  • 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
  • Cukavac, Hilda
  • 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)
  • Fleming, Michael
  • Flynn, Roderick
  • Ford, Katherine
  • Fox, Dorothy
  • Frenette, Gillian
  • Garner, Adam
  • Gayda, Melinda
  • Gebrenegus-Kidane, Sarah
  • Genjaga, Kristina
  • Gentile, Louis
  • Gibson, Kathleen
  • Gongora, Paola
  • Gonzalez, Cesar
  • Green, Alesha
  • Gueller, Paulina
  • Gural, Christina
  • Hamat, Dena
  • Hammond, Tyler
  • Harrison, Christopher
  • Hitayezu-Fall, Diane
  • Idem, Gladys
  • Igbinoba, Eronmwon
  • Ikpeni, Theresa
  • Ilori, Solape
  • Israelstam, Gregory
  • Jackson, Ruth
  • Jeon, Alice
  • Joffe, Kerri
  • Karambelas, Panteleimon (Peter)
  • Kean, Dana
  • Kebede, Dagmawi
  • Kerezova, Mihaela
  • Khamsi, Khamissa
  • Kim, Jiyoung
  • Kim, Kyeng Min (Ryan)
  • Kinsella, Christopher
  • Kissoon, Priya
  • Kivlichan, John
  • Kloepfer, Megan
  • Koh, Brian Hyunhoo
  • Kotyk, Alexandra
  • 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
  • Markovits, Robert Allan
  • Martin, Dahron
  • Mashkuri, Sudabeh
  • Mason, Lesley
  • Maziarz, Teresa
  • McCabe, Jean-Marc
  • McColl, Alysha
  • Mekhael, Randa
  • Mengesha, Mewded
  • Moc, Marcela
  • Moffat-Vallée, Rebecca
  • Mohammed, Ehab
  • 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
  • Oweggi, Lynda
  • Pavlova, Radostina
  • Pearson, Heather
  • Perhan, Zhanna
  • Peterdy, Chelsea
  • Petrov, Mariyan
  • Puri, Raajveer
  • Qi, Selena
  • Quadri, Adedeji
  • Robertson, Nadine
  • Robinson, Miranda
  • Rosiji, Ibidapo Olaolu
  • Rozensajn, Yonatan
  • Russell, Patrick
  • Ruthven, Cameron
  • Ryan, Geneviève
  • Samaroo, Nigel
  • Santos, Selina
  • Sarwat, Faraz
  • 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
  • Stumpf, Matthew
  • 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
  • Wong, Jessica
  • Woodworth, Jennifer
       

Western Region

  • Adeleke, Adetola
  • Adhopia, Preeti
  • Akintunde, Iseoluwa
  • Anjorin, Abdul-Ghaniy
  • Bandan, Parveen
  • Bhinder, Aman
  • Bilkevitch, Kate
  • Bislimi, Faton (Tony)
  • Bogojevic, Katarina
  • Bower, Nick
  • Chauhan, Sandeep
  • Chehrazi, Aida
  • Cortes-Diaz, Tania
  • Cundal, Kerry
  • Ezechikwelu, Emenike
  • Farmer, Lorna
  • Fox, Michal
  • Fullerton, Delano
  • Goh, Shen
  • Gray, Hannah
  • Hatch, Alannah
  • Hong, Hoang-Mai
  • Ile, Precious
  • Ing, Cindy
  • Jones, David
  • Kahlon, Amritsingh
  • 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
  • Martens, Stefan
  • McCormack, Nichola
  • Mensink, Jennifer
  • Molgat, Miryam
  • Moreno, Julie
  • Muljar, Ramona
  • Musayelyan, David
  • Nash, Corey
  • Nauman, Milica
  • Ngo, Sarah
  • Nguyen, Duy
  • Odigie, Osehise Lawretta
  • Oh, Soya
  • Ojeleye, Olukunle
  • Olatunji, Ademiju
  • Olson, Alexander
  • Osman Ibrahim, Amina
  • Ouchakov, Zonia
  • Pannu, Alexander
  • Parandeh, Ali
  • Peterson, Geraldine
  • Pezzutto, Amanda
  • Price, Christine
  • Pridgeon, Jennifer Lucy
  • Rajaian, Samin
  • Rak, Andriy
  • Sangha, Nicole
  • Sangha, Sukhpal
  • Sayyari, Persia
  • Schmalzbauer, Jodie
  • Sherwood, Charles (Logan)
  • Shoyombo, Adeyemi
  • Smith, Jennifer
  • Smith-Gander, Pamela
  • Somers, Shaina
  • Vellani, Fayyaz
  • Yorgun, Siobhan
  • Zilm, Graham

      

Ottawa

  • Adebayo-Razak, Ojuolape
  • Adeyemo, Ayodele
  • Ang, David
  • Brunot, Alexandra
  • Cantor, Kevin
  • Carens-Nedelsky, Daniel 
  • Choucrallah, Marina
  • Chung, Alex
  • Collins, Antoine
  • Dumitrescu Jelea, Anca
  • Dunbar Tobin, Kristen
  • Fitzgerald, Peter Paul
  • Fournier, Christian
  • Gagnon, Christine
  • Gaul, Isabelle
  • Hajam, Nadia
  • Iyortyer, Hembadoon
  • Kane, Djiby Salif
  • Knes-Gray, Zoe
  • Kramo, Claude
  • Kwofie, Abbas
  • Landry, Michel
  • Lewis-Murray, Latoya
  • Montague, Andrew
  • Moreno, Gloria
  • Ondongo, Jany
  • Patterson, Jeannette
  • Pitre, Jason
  • Ponce Tamayo, Felisa
  • Rego, Warren
  • Reis, Roberto
  • Richmond, Meredith
  • Rumsey, Carolyn
  • Sobretodo, Dodie
  • Strickland, John
  • Tasnim, Asheka
  • Umeh, Uchechi
  • Vlavonou, Gino
  • Walker, Brendan 
  • Woods, Warren

      
       
Refugee Appeal Division
  • Suzanne Gilbert, Deputy Chairperson
  • Roxane Vachon, Assistant Deputy Chairperson, Eastern Region (Montréal)
  • Erin Bobkin, Acting Assistant Deputy Chairperson, Central Region
  • Paula Faber, Acting Assistant Deputy Chairperson, Western Region

Eastern Region (Montréal)

  • Al-Salem, Rouba
  • Aubin, Pascale
  • Beaubien, Virginie
  • Beauchesne, Mathieu
  • Bissonnette, Alain
  • Colella, Laura
  • Colin, Michel
  • Connat, Agnès
  • Corry, Julie
  • Cote, David
  • Dahan, Julie
  • Djerroud, Salima
  • Doyle, Elaine (Part-time)
  • Durocher, Martine
  • Fontaine, Alexandre
  • Gauthier, Charles
  • Guerrier, Guerlain
  • Jedid, Toni
  • Kagabo, Amandine
  • Khalifa, Reisa
  • Ladouceur, Nicole (Part-time)
  • Lamani, Mokhtar
  • Leduc, Normand (Part-time)
  • Lefebvre, Jolyane
  • Maxwell, Caitlin
  • Musto, Marisa
  • Ouellet, Daphnée
  • Parizeau, Isabelle
  • Pérusse, Marc
  • Plouffe-Malette, Kristine (Part-time)
  • Rabot, Philippe
  • Roberts, Ayanna
  • Saidi, Ezzeddine
  • Sheitoyan, Richard
  • Simixhiu, Iris
  • Smith, Conor
  • Suciu, Bianca
  • Tétreault, Anne-Thierrie
  • Thibault, Marie-Lyne
  • Vaezmir, Laudan
       

Central Region

  • Anderson, Colin
  • Andrews, Tanya
  • Basa, Rosemary
  • Bousfield, Joel
  • Braden, Cheryl
  • Card, Thomas
  • Carter-Whitney, Maureen (Part-time)
  • Dobson-Hamilton, Tracey-Ann
  • Ferguson, Nathan
  • Foreman, Kimberley
  • Gallant, Jacqueline
  • Gibbs, Carol-Ann
  • Hart, Linda
  • Kaderali, Zahra
  • Katz, Sandra
  • Kaufman, Neil
  • Khan, Saira
  • Krajcovic, Linda
  • Lee, Monica
  • Leon Foun Lin, Danielle
  • Lindberg, Caroline
  • Lourenco, Jessica
  • McGovern, Karen
  • McQuade, Charlotte
  • Mohan, Dilani
  • Morris, David
  • Murata, Jessica
  • Oh, Matthew
  • Pike, Katrina
  • Pollock, Jennifer
  • Poole, Andrea
  • Qadeer, Nadra
  • Rashid, Rafeena
  • Schweitzer, Toni
  • Seyan, Ravninder
  • Sierra, Amanda
  • Singh, Inderpreet
  • Sloan, James
  • Song, Anne
  • Thompson, Sybil
  • Wallace, Karen
  • Willard, Diana
  • Zuk, Stephanie

      

Western Region

  • Acton, Tess
  • Adams, Desiree
  • Aggarwala, Rita (Part-time) (Calgary)
  • Broad, Patricia
  • Brown, Susan
  • Delibasic, Hana
  • Dodsworth, John
  • Doherty, Adam
  • Fortney, Douglas (Part-time)
  • Gardiner, Michael (Part-time)
  • Helis, John
  • Hersh, Nicholas
  • Jampolsky, Fia
  • Kennedy, Alison
  • Khan, Rana
  • Ko, Laura
  • Lail, Jagdip
  • Lehr, Sabine
  • Liberman, Ron
  • Madden, Michael
  • McDermott, Charles (Part-time)
  • Moore, Jennifer
  • Polowek, Kim (Part-time)
  • Prowse, Chad
  • Ryan, Julie
  • Schroeder, Kari
  • Smith, Aaron
  • Soukoreff, Monica
  • Thompson, Paula (Part-time)
  • Vermette, Derek (Calgary)

      

Eastern Region (Ottawa)

  • Adams, Desiree
  • Aubin, Pascale
  • Broad, Patricia
  • Brown, Susan
  • Colella, Laura
  • Delibasic, Hana
  • Dodsworth, John
  • Guerrier, Guerlain
  • Hersh, Nicholas
  • Kennedy, Alison
  • Khan, Rana
  • Khan, Saira
  • Ladouceur, Nicole (Part-time)
  • Leon Foun Lin, Danielle
  • Madden, Michael
  • Maxwell, Caitlin
  • McDermott, Charles (Part-time)
  • Moore, Jennifer
  • Ouellet, Daphnée
  • Pérusse, Marc
  • Ryan, Julie
  • Smith, Aaron
  • Smith, Conor
  • Thompson, Paula (Part-time)

       
       
Immigration Division
  • Greg Kipling, Deputy Chairperson
  • Heather Gibbs, Assistant Deputy Chairperson, Central Region
  • Isabelle Germain, Assistant Deputy Chairperson, Eastern Region
  • Jesse Davidson, Acting Assistant Deputy Chairperson, Western Region
  • Mary Heyes, Coordinating Member, Central Region
  • Kelsey Lange, Coordinating Member, Central Region
  • , Acting Coordinating Member, Eastern Region
  • , Coordinating Member, Western Region

Eastern Region

  • Clément, Daphnée
  • Delage, Laurence
  • Dumoulin, Yves
  • Filiatrault, Maxime
  • Friedman, Ethan
  • Froment-Gateau, Sophie
  • Jadue,Cristian
  • Lashley, Anthony
  • Leclerc-Gagné, Élise
  • Lemaine, Annie
  • Meleras, Michèle
  • Morissette, Maude
  • Mukasonga, Céline
  • Simard, Guy

      

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
  • McKeown, Daniel
  • McLellan, Alexis
  • Mohamed, Maleeka
  • Mokbel, Madona
  • Palmer, Angelique
  • Smyth, Kristen
  • Stratigopoulos, Ron
  • Tempier, Claire
      

Western Region

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

      
Immigration Appeal Division
  • Caroline Labranche, ​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
  • 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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