Doug Piquette, Executive Director of the Edmonton Region Immigrant Employment Council has 15 years of experience working to establish, manage and advance the strategic priorities and direction of his organization.

Doug brings a breadth of diverse experience to ERIEC with over 30 years’ experience in project design and management in the community economic development field.

Doug is a founding board member of the Edmonton Business Diversity Network and the past Chair of the Workforce Development and Attraction Committee with the Edmonton Chamber of Commerce.

Doug holds a B.Sc. in Psychology from the University of Victoria, a certificate in Economic Development from the University of Waterloo and in Executive Leadership from the University of Alberta. Doug works fluently in both Spanish and English