Rosa Galvez, PhD, ing.

Labelled “La Dame du Lac” in the media, the Honourable Senator Rosa Galvez has had a remarkable career, driven by her dedication to strengthening the engineering profession and protecting the environment. As a professor and department head of Civil and Water Engineering at the University of Laval, she drove significant improvements, including the establishment of an environmental research laboratory and the addition of $90 million of research funding for faculty. For her internationally recognized research on the devastating Lac Mégantic petroleum fire, she was also asked to give the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers’ 2017–2018 National Lecture Tour. She’s currently serving as chair of the Senate Energy, Environment, and Natural Resources Committee, where she’s showcasing how engineers can transform policy-making through evidence- and fact-based approaches.