Sjoerd van der Wielen

Sjoerd is located in Combermere, Ontario, on the traditional unceded, unsurrendered territory of the Anishinaabe Algonquin People, in the Madawaska Basin.
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Sjoerd is a dedicated manager and has worked for and with Indigenous communities and organisations for the past 15 years. For the past eight years he has supervised teams in Indigenous organisations that focus on land management, healthy, self-sustaining communities and capacity building, intertwining western knowledge with traditional knowledge.

Sjoerd is a Senior Project Manager at CIER. With his background in GIS, along with his experience supporting the gathering and use of traditional knowledge and implementation of community-based monitoring programs, he helps lead many of CIER’s projects to successful completion.

When Sjoerd is not at his desk, he is doing some sort of outdoor activity or playing Lego with his sons.