Peggy Fridriksdottir, B.A.,
Director
Peggy is very well known and respected in the Canadian immigration consulting community with wide and varied contacts. She's been an immigration consultant since 2009 and in that time has held many important and high profile roles in the community. Peggy served on the National Board of Directors of the Canadian Association of Professional Immigration Consultants (CAPIC) as the President of the BC Chapter where she helped raise the profile of the chapter by putting on outstanding education events.
She later served on the Board of Directors of the Immigration Consultants of Canada Regulatory Council (ICCRC) and was the Vice Chair of the Finance and Audit Committee. With two colleagues Peggy founded a Continuing Professional Development (CPD) company in 2012 and became the Western Canada Manager of the group. The group was very successful due in no small part to Peggy's efforts.
Peggy has considerable experience in business and has started, owned and operated several successful businesses in Iceland and Canada. She served as a board member of the Chamber of Commerce in Chilliwack, BC for three years and was on several sub committees.
Rhonda Williams, B.A. (Hons.), M.A., RCIC
Director
Rhonda is well known and respected in the immigration consulting community with over 25 years of experience as a consultant. Before becoming an immigration consultant, Rhonda worked as a visa officer with postings in Asia. Since her return to Canada she has contributed to the consulting community by serving on the national Board of Driectors of the Canadian Association of Professional Immigration Consultants (CAPIC) as the National Secretary and Chair of the Governance Committee in 2006-2008.
Rhonda was an instructor in the Certificate in Immigration:Laws, Policies and Procedures at the University of British Columbia for 11 years. She is now an Adjunct Professor in the Immigration and Citizenship Law program in the Faculty of Law at Queen's University. In Feburary 2011, she became one of four founding members of the Immigration Consultants of Canada Regulatory Council (ICCRC), and served on the Board of Directors until November 2017. She was the first elected Chair of the Board of Directors of ICCRC, and has also served as the Chair of the Governance and Nominating Committee, the Human Resources and Compensation Committee, and the Practice Management and Education Committee.
She's contributed to the Immigration Consultants Handbook in 2010 and 2011 as a subject matter expert (SME), and appeared as a SME in "True Love or Marriage Fraud" on CBC's The Passionate Eye in 2010. She speaks on Canadian immigration around the world to potential immigrants and in Canada at peer professional education events.
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