APEGA
M eet the P resident
Three major themes important to APEGA’s 99th President come through in this Meet the President interview: globalization, community building, and listening. Nima Dorjee, P.Eng., FEC, FGC (Hon.), says globalization is both an opportunity and a challenge for APEGA. Alberta is well placed to make use of the wisdom and experience it has attracted over the last few decades, he says. The challenge we face is in gaining a better understanding of the extent of outsourcing of professional work to other jurisdictions. “I’m not saying the work that’s happening elsewhere is not up to standard. But we do need to look at and understand the lay of the land in this, because this globalized, high-tech world is changing all the time,” he explains. Community building is a big part of who Mr. Dorjee is. He’s a past president of the University of Calgary Students’ Union. He later led the engineering intern program at the university. And he recently led the relocation of 1,000 Tibetan refugees, most of them born in India, to new homes in Canada. The project mirrors his own journey—he, too, was born in India in a refugee settlement. He wants his presidency to be marked by listening to members and learning from them, often in informal gatherings. It’s critical, he says, that APEGA understand the landscape of members’ careers, industries, profes- sional practices, and lives to inform the governance and services it provides.
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