Adamie Delisle Alaku

Mr. Adamie Delisle-Alaku was elected as Makivvik Vice President in 2014. He has since been acclaimed three times – in 2017, 2020, and 2023 – now serving a fourth consecutive term. He received his high school diploma in 1999 from Ikusik High School in his hometown of Salluit. Adamie worked at the Raglan mine for Falconbridge and Kiewit-Nuvumiut, initially as student labourer, later as a human resources coordinator, and thereafter as a general open-pit foreman. Prior to being employed at Makivik Corporation, Adamie was a volunteer fireman, and was an active first responder in his home community. He has also worked as general manager at the Co-op Hotel.

Adamie joined Makivvik in the spring of 2011 as Executive Assistant to then-Vice President, Mr. Johnny Peters. In this position, he developed a broad understanding of wildlife and environmental issues, and the various challenges related to renewable resources facing Nunavik Inuit. He has showed great devotion to ensuring Nunavimmiut are heard and well-represented at the regional, national and international levels, including the United Nations Convention on Climate Change, Arctic Circle Conferences, Polar Bear Range State meetings, CITES, and various conferences and lobbying efforts abroad. He was appointed to the Raglan Committee and Nunavik Nickel committee for his extensive experiences at the mines.

Adamie was also co-chair of the Ungava Peninsula Caribou Aboriginal Roundtable from 2013 to 2019. He was also a key contributor to the council of project partners as a Makivvik appointee overseeing the construction of Isuarsivik, Nunavik’s regional recovery treatment center, an initiative that helps Inuit with addictions through cultural healing.

Adamie was formerly a Director on Makivvik’s various subsidiaries: Air Inuit, First Air, Nunavik Creations, Halutik Enterprises, Nunavik Geomatics, Nunacell, and Kautaq Construction. In addition, he has been a board member to ArcticNet a network that studies the impacts of rapid climate, environmental, and socio-economic change. Furthermore, he has held Crown Corporation Board of Director positions with Société du Plan Nord and was appointed in 2017 for a four-year term with Polar Knowledge Canada, where his experience of the North and Arctic research issues was well served.

He is currently a member of the Hunting Fishing Trapping Coordinating Committee where he has been active since 2011 and was Chairman during 2013, 2017 and 2020.

More recently Adamie was appointed to the board of directors of the Institut Nordique du Quebec in 2020, a conglomerate of universities that groups experts from Quebec in the field of northern and Arctic research. He has also returned as a board member to the Co-operative Management Board to the Torngat Mountains National Park.

Adamie is a respected member of his home community of Salluit, and now lives in Kuujjuaq with his partner Victoria and her two children Linus and Louise. Among his many achievements, Adamie is fluently tri-lingual (Inuktitut, French and English), enjoys hunting and fishing and loves to play music and perform in various festivals.

In his elected capacity at Makivvik, Adamie is committed to ensuring he represents the best interests of Nunavimmiut regarding cultural ties to the land and Nunavik’s renewable resources and environment.