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VICTORIA – Government today announced the appointment of three senior government officials.
Effective June 16, Joan Hesketh will become deputy minister and executive director of the Environmental Assessment Office. Hesketh held a range of resource-related executive positions during more than two decades in government, and is currently a vice-president with Land and Water B.C. She holds a master’s degree in public administration.
On June 30, Doug Konkin will become deputy minister with the Ministry of Forests. The current deputy minister, Don Wright, will focus on softwood negotiations and implementing forest policy changes as the ministry’s chief of trade negotiations and implementation.
Konkin has held technical, professional and managerial roles in government since 1982. Most recently, he has served as assistant deputy minister of operations and B.C. timber sales with Forests. A former school trustee, he holds a bachelor’s degree in forestry and has chaired numerous land-use-planning initiatives.
Wright, who has served as the ministry’s deputy minister since June 2001, has worked in various senior management positions during his 14 years in government.
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