Jean La Rose, Board Chair, ICD.D

Jean La Rose is a First Nations citizen from the Abenaki First Nation of Odanak in Québec. He grew up in Ottawa where he studied Journalism at Algonquin College and obtained his Bachelor of Arts in Social Communication at the University of Ottawa/Université St. Paul.
Jean La Rose was the Chief Executive Officer of APTN, the first national Indigenous broadcaster in the world, with programming by, for and about Indigenous Peoples, from 2002 to 2019. Since then, he has taken the role of President/CEO of Dadan Sivunivut, a holding company for the many subsidiaries that were created by APTN to assist artists and producers in furthering their careers and expanding their audiences across Canada and beyond.
Mr. La Rose sits on the Board of Directors of Mother Earth Recycling (a social enterprise located in Winnipeg), the Nations Translation Group and La Cité Collégiale (Ontario’s largest French-language community college). He received a National Aboriginal Achievement Award (now known as Indspire Awards) for Media and Communications in 2011, and the CEO HR Champion of the Year Award from the Human Resource Management Association of Manitoba in 2015. He was named “Alumni of the Year” in 2015 by St. Paul University and received an Honorary Diploma in Journalism from La Cité Collégiale in Ottawa in 2015.
Mr. La Rose is also the Chair of the Heritage Canada Departmental Audit Committee, is a member of the Parks Canada Departmental Audit Committee and served on Minister Joly’s Panel of Experts examining the future of the digital economy as it pertains to the Arts and Culture industries.