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Stephen J. Mills |Chair of the Board/ Executive Committee Member/Board Member Stephen Mills negotiates and implements financial, implementation, and other agreements related to First Nation Land Claim and Self Government Stephen is President of the Vuntut Development Corporation, Chair of the Yukon Surface Rights Board and Senior Official for the Gwich’in Council International. Stephen is a member of the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation based in Old Crow, Yukon. He is an active hunter and trapper. Ken Mckinnon| Executive Committee Member/Board Member Ken Mckinnon brings a lifetime of public and private sector experience to the Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Board, and has held many positions of leadership in Yukon. His career is distinguished by long-time dedication to his profession and service to his community, and he has made substantial and significant contributions to the development of the Yukon Territory.
He was the youngest member of the Yukon Legislative Assembly in 1961, and served an additional three terms (1967, 1970, and 1974) where he was actively involved in the transferring of federal responsibilities to the territorial government. He was appointed as one of the first Honorary Chiefs of the Yukon Native Brotherhood for his support of the original land claim on behalf of Yukon First Nations, and was the president of the first Arctic Winter Games, held in 1970 in Yellowknife, NWT. Ken served as Commissioner of the Yukon from 1986 to 1995, and held positions as Director of the Arctic Institute of North America (1987 to 1994), Member of the Task Force on Northern Conservation (1983 to 1984), Yukon Administrator of the Northern Pipeline Agency (1979 to 1984), Co-chair of the Commission on the Environmental and Socio-Economic Terms and Conditions for the Alaska Highway Pipeline, and Chancellor of Yukon College (2000 to 2004). In addition to these achievements, Ken is the recipient of the Governor General’s Centennial Medal (1967), the Silver Jubilee Medal (1977), and the Canada 125 Medal (1992). Along with his position of leadership to the Yukon Environmental & Socio-economic Assessment Board, Ken is the president of McKinnon and Associates General Consulting.
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Tara Christie | Board Member Tara Christie is a partner and active participant
in Gimlex Gold Mines, her Tara has also served as the President of the KPMA, a Board Member of the Yukon Chamber of Mines and a Board Member of the BC and Yukon Chamber of Mines. She has traveled throughout the Yukon with the Yukon Placer Authorization Review and Public Consultation, meeting with a variety of stakeholders on issues that affect the placer mining industry. Tara has lived and worked in the Yukon for more than 22 years. She attended the University of British Columbia (UBC) and holds a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Geological Engineering, with a specialty in geo-technical work. She also holds a Masters Degree in Geological Engineering, with a specialty in environmental geochemistry, also from UBC.
Dave Keenan | Board Member Dave Keenan works as a community-based consultant and is a member of the Yukon Territory Water Board.
Dave was elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of the Yukon Territory and served as Minister of Community and Transportation Services, as well as Minister of Tourism. He has also worked in the placer mining and quartz mining industries in the Yukon and Northwest Territories. Born and raised in the Yukon, Dave is a member of the Teslin Tlingit Council and has worked throughout the territory. He enjoys outdoor activities and is an active trapper.
Ross Leef | Board Member Ross Leef has worked in natural resource management for 32 years in both the Yukon and Ontario. He currently runs a consulting business in the Yukon.
Most recently, Ross was Executive Director of the Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Board for a period of 11 months, leaving that position in June 2005. Ross also served with the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources between 1971 and 1983, and then again between 1991 and 1997. Ross graduated from Sir Sandford Fleming College in Lindsay, Ontario, with a Forest Technician Diploma.
CARL SIDNEY | BOARD MEMBER Carl Sidney is a member of the Yukon Salmon Committee, the Yukon Heritage Resources Board, the National Chiefs Committee on Fisheries for the Assembly of First Nations and the Yukon River Panel.
Carl worked with the Teslin Tlingit Council from 1991 until 2003, serving on the Executive Council for eight years and as Deputy Chief for six years. He has spent a number of years working in the hard rock mining industry and in diamond drilling, both in surface and underground projects. Carl also has a background in business, establishing a freighter canoe factory in his home town of Teslin, where he trained local citizens to operate machinery and build canoes. Carl served five years with the Canadian Armed Forces in the Royal Canadian Engineers, voluntarily resigning with Honours. He graduated from F.H. Collins High School in Whitehorse and has attained a Heavy Duty Mechanics certificate at Vancouver Community College, apprenticing afterwards with the Yukon Highways Department. Carl was born in Teslin and was raised there by his grandmother Olive Sidney. He is a member of the Teslin Tlingit Council.
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Agreements, and has worked in this capacity in both the Yukon and the Northwest Territories. Stephen’s educational background is in business administration, as well as mediation and dispute resolution.
family’s
placer mining business based in Dawson City. She also works as a consultant on geological, geochemical, environmental and mining related issues. 
Dave
served as Chief of the Teslin Tlingit Council and was a negotiator
in the process that led up to the Umbrella Final Agreement. He
was a negotiator and is a signatory to the Teslin Tlingit Council’s
Final Land Claim and Self Government Agreements. He has also served
as Vice Chief and Grand Chief of the Council of Yukon First Nations/Council for Yukon Indians.
Born in Toronto, Ross first moved to the Yukon in 1983 to take a position with the Yukon Department of Renewable Resources. He worked in that department until 1991, and then again from 1997 until his retirement from government in 2003. During that period he held a variety of positions including Regional Resource Manager, Director of Field Services and Acting Deputy Minister.