Cristina Rémond

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Cristina Yvonne Rémond is a Canadian public servant, feminist anthropologist and Canada's representative at the Miss Universe 2001 pageant.

Rémond grew up in Montreal, Quebec and was educated at Carleton University in Ottawa where she now works as an officer for the information Sercices United for Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada. [1]

She has had seven years of paramilitary training with the Royal Canadian Air Cadets, graduated as Squadron Commander of Air Cadets and has had 12 years formal piano instruction. She can speak English, French, German, Hungarian and Spanish.

She received Private Pilot's License on scholarship at age 17; awarded Royal Canadian Legion Medal of Excellence; Best overall assessment (highest mark) in Canada, and chosen as Cadet Ambassador to Australia, 1999; award-winning debater and public speaker; and has modeled worldwide.[2]

In the past, she has worked as a Human Rights legal anthropologist working as a consultant with Rights and Democracy in Montreal. She has also worked for United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Kenya's refugee camps and in Canada. She was on the management team for Monia Mazigh's campaign in the 2004 Canadian federal election. She has won the Sylvia Forman Prize for her work feminist anthropology, and has worked with the African Centre for Democracy and Human Rights studies in the Gambia. She has also participated in the World Movement for Democracy. Her work in Africa has been focused on the issues of gender and violence. [3] [4]