Chief Tammy Cook-Searson has served on the LLRIB council since 1997. (Submitted photo/Tammy Cook-Searson)

By Derek Cornet

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Chief Tammy Cook-Searson appointed to Cameco board

Aug 3, 2023 | 3:03 PM

Lac La Ronge Indian Band (LLRIB) Chief Tammy Cook-Searson has been appointed to the Cameco Board of Directors effective Sept. 1.

“I’m really grateful for the opportunity to serve,” she said.

“I made it known to Cameco I was interested in a board position, that if a position ever became available or open to be considered. I was contacted by a recruiter for Cameco and I went through a rigorous selection process, and it went to the board and I was notified I was being appointed to the Cameco board.”

Cook-Searson, who is also president of Kitsaki Management Limited Partnership, has been on the LLRIB council since 1997 and the chief since 2005. She currently sits on the boards of the Prince Albert Grand Council, Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations, Saskatoon Airport Authority, Saskatchewan Indian Gaming Authority, and the Assembly of First Nations.

Cook-Searson holds a graduate diploma in management and is completing her Master’s of Business Administration at Athabasca University. She also holds honourary degrees from the University of Regina and the Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technologies.

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“I have been working on my Master’s in Business Administration. I have been working on it for over two years, just either after hours, weekends, early mornings,” Cook-Searson said.

“It has been really beneficial with my work as the chief and, also now being on the Cameco board, I will also be able to expand my knowledge on business and just seeing what opportunities are there for northerners and just being able to give the perspective. I have grown up on a trapline, I speak Cree, I live in Northern Saskatchewan and I have good connections across the North, and people have always been able to contact me and to be able to have that open communication.”

Cook-Searson explained Cameco has a good track record when it comes to employing northerners. She noted northerners have had representation by Don Deranger and, in the past, by former Chief and current Senator Harry Cook. Cook-Searson said she looks forward to continuing the work they started.

The current Board of Directors, according to the Cameco website, are board chair Ian Bruce, President and CEO Tim Gitzel, Daniel Camus, Don Deranger, Catherine Gignac, Jim Gowans, Kathryn Jackson, Don Kayne and Leontine van Leeuwen-Atkins.

Dominique Minière will also join the Board of Directors effective Sept. 1. Cook-Searson will serve on Cameco’s safety, health and environment committee and technical committee upon her appointment as a director.

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derek.cornet@pattisonmedia.com