Senior Management Biographies

Deputy Minister of Canadian Heritage

Isabelle Mondou joined the Department of Canadian Heritage (PCH) on October 22, 2018, as Associate Deputy Minister and, after being on assignment at the Privy Council Office as Deputy Minister for the COVID-19 Response (Communications) from April 2020 to April 2021, became Deputy Minister of PCH on May 3, 2021.
On September 19, 2016, Isabelle was appointed Assistant Secretary to the Cabinet (Priorities and Planning) at the Privy Council Office. Prior to that, she was legal counsel to the Clerk of the Privy Council and Assistant Secretary (Democratic Reform).
Isabelle joined Canada’s public service in 1994 as an employee of the Department of Revenue. She has held a wide range of positions, including in the Intergovernmental Affairs, Machinery of Government and Senior Personnel sections at the Privy Council Office.
Isabelle has a Bachelor of Law degree (1989) and a Master of Law degree (1994) from the Université de Montréal. She was called to the Barreau du Québec in 1990. She practised law in the private sector, with a focus on administrative, environmental, and municipal law.
Isabelle is originally from the Laurentian region and has lived in Ottawa since 1996.
She is the mother of two children.

Andrew Brown joined the Department of Canadian Heritage on May 6, 2024, as Associate Deputy Minister.
Prior to this appointment, he was an Associate Deputy Minister at Employment and Social Development (ESDC). Andrew contributed to Canada’s commitments on Early Learning and Child Care and to the United Nations Decade for People of African Descent, such as the Supporting Black Canadian Communities Initiative. Since 2014, he held several senior positions at ESDC, where he worked on initiatives spanning its mandate.
Earlier in his career, Andrew worked as an Advisor at the Privy Council Office on files related to the Canada-United States border from 2012 until 2014; and at Citizenship and Immigration Canada on citizenship, immigration and refugee programs in Canada and abroad.
Andrew holds a Bachelor of Science (with Honours) degree from Queen’s University (Kingston) and a doctorate in Physics from the University of Alberta.
Andrew is originally from Kingston, Ontario and lives with his partner in Ottawa.

Emmanuelle Sajous became Assistant Deputy Minister of Sport, Major Events and Commemorations on February 22, 2021. Emmanuelle joined PCH in August 2018 as Director General of Major Events, Commemorations and Capital Experience.
Emmanuelle, born in France and having grown up in Moncton, New Brunswick, holds a master's degree in public administration and a certificate in law. She also undertook doctoral studies in political sciences at l'Université Laval before being recruited as a management trainee in the public service in 1992.
After working for a number of federal institutions including the Canadian Human Rights Commission, the Public Service Commission and the Privy Council Office, she joined the Office of the Secretary to the Governor General where she was appointed Deputy Secretary of Honours and Deputy Herald Chancellor in 2005. Emmanuelle was awarded the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012, the insignia of Chevalier de l'Ordre national du Mérite from the French government in 2015 for distinguished services as well as the Vice-Regal’s Commendation in 2017 and the King Charles III’s Coronation Medal in 2024.

Biographies of other members of senior management to follow.