Ombudsperson
Stephanie Shatilla became the Ombudsperson of the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (IRB) on January 8, 2024. She first joined the
IRB in 2018 as the Assistant Deputy Chairperson of the Refugee Protection Division in Central Region. She then worked as the Executive Lead in the Workplace Wellness Directorate and later as the Senior Director of the Healthy Workplace Directorate in the Human Resources Branch.
Ms. Shatilla spent 2010 to 2018 with the Ontario Public Service, in immigration, federal-provincial-territorial and stakeholder relations, and in women’s economic empowerment and ending gender-based violence. When she joined the federal public service in 1999 and until 2010, Ms. Shatilla held positions in communications, program policy, and strategic policy at the Departments of Canadian Heritage, and then in program policy with Citizenship and Immigration Canada.