Canfor Corporation appoints Dianne Watts to its Board of Directors. Ms. Watts’s political career spans over 20 years where she has been a proven leader at both the municipal and federal levels, as the company says in the press release received by Lesprom Network.
She served as a Surrey BC city councillor from 1996 to 2005. She was the first woman elected to the position of mayor of Surrey, BC, in 2005, and held that position for nine years. Ms. Watts was elected into the federal government as Member of Parliament for South Surrey-White Rock where she served from 2015 to 2017.
Ms. Watts has extensive Board and Committee experience, including being a past Member of the Metro Vancouver Board of Directors; former Chair of the National Policing and Public Safety Committee; former Chair of the Mayors Council of Regional Transportation and a past member of the National Security and Public Safety Committee.
Canfor is a leading integrated forest products company based in Vancouver, British Columbia with interests in BC, Alberta, North and South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and Arkansas.
