Ms. Julie Lindhout

Julie Lindhout taught for 16 years at the secondary school level, and joined the Ontario Ministry of Education in 1980, serving in several senior management positions. She was Director of Policy when she retired from the Ministry of Education in 1998 and established Lindhout Associates Education Consulting. She has increased her involvement with the Atlantic Council of Canada (ACC) into a more than full-time volunteer position, since becoming President in 2002. Mrs. Lindhout has also been active in the Brussels-based Atlantic Treaty Association (ATA), the umbrella organization of which the ACC is a member, as a member of the Executive of the ATA’s Education Committee, the Education Coordinator for the ATA until 2005, and an ATA Bureau Vice-President from 2005-2008. She was Rapporteur for several ATA Assemblies, and has moderated panels and presented papers at many ATA Assemblies, conferences and seminars. Mrs. Lindhout is also a Director of the Canadian Turkish Business Council and a member of the Ontario Special Education Tribunal.