
Leadership
Leadership to the staff and volunteers of IJM Canada is provided by the Board of Directors and the Executive Director, who seek to implement in our Canadian context the global direction set by the leaders of IJM.
Anu George Canjanathoppil
Chief Executive Officer at IJM Canada
Board of Directors
James Peters
Chairperson | Past President, Hadrian Manufacturing Inc.
Marvin Devries
Vice-Chair | Past President, Trojan Technologies
Kelly Semkiw
Secretary | Consultant
Jon Faber
Treasurer | Chief Financial Officer, Pason Systems
Angie Redecopp
Lawyer, Impact Business Law
Jennifer Ip
Lawyer; Past Unit Director & Counsel at LAWPRO
Jonathan Shui
Director of Investments, Good & Well
Maranatha Weeks
Nurse and Clinical Case Manager, Shriner's Hospital
Melissa Russell
Regional President of North America, IJM
Wayne Alguire
Former Senior Pastor, Trinity Church
Leigh Schumann
Principal, Fawkes + Holly
Marv Penner
Founder and Director: Coalition for Youth Ministry Excellence
Gary Haugen, CEO & Founder
Before founding IJM in 1997, Gary Haugen was a human rights attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice, where he focused on crimes of police misconduct. In 1994, he served as the Director of the United Nations’ investigation in the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide. In this role, he led an international team of lawyers, criminal prosecutors, law enforcement officers, and forensics experts to gather evidence that would eventually be used to bring the perpetrators of the genocide to justice. Gary received a B.A. in Social Studies from Harvard University, and a J.D. from the University of Chicago.
Gary has been recognized by the U.S. State Department as a Trafficking in Persons “Hero” – the highest honor given by the U.S. government for anti-slavery leadership. His work to protect the poor from violence has been featured by Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, the New Yorker, The Times of India, Forbes, U.S. News and World Report, the Guardian and National Public Radio, among many other outlets. He is the author of several books, including Good News About Injustice (Intervarsity Press) and, most recently, The Locust Effect: Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence (Oxford University Press). Gary was invited to share the themes of The Locust Effect at the annual TED Conference in a talk entitled: The hidden reason for poverty the world needs to address now.