Ms. Maria Desjardins provides support to the Secretary General, the Board of Directors, and the Members of the Corporation and has held this role since the very beginning of the Centre in 2011.
Ms. Desjardins brings to GCP more than 20 years of experience on the not-for-profit sector. Previously, she worked at the Canadian Council for International Co-operation (CCIC) in the same position. Ms. Desjardins travelled extensively and worked in different countries as Bolivia, Argentina, Peru, Morocco, and P.R. of China. Her international experience in different cultures and countries is an asset for her work at the Global Centre for Pluralism.