Meet the Team

Our team of investigators comprises a group of world-class international researchers from the University of British Columbia and other universities, think tanks, financial institutions and financial sector solution providers.

• Dr. Victoria Lemieux, Director
• vlemieux@ciferresearch.org

• Dr. Victoria Lemieux is a records and information management expert with over twenty years of experience in government, industry, and education.  Her interest in financial records and their relationship to risk stems back to her 1999-2001 doctoral research on the information-related causes of the Jamaican Banking Crisis (University College London 2002).  Following completion of her doctoral research, Dr. Lemieux joined Credit Suisse as a VP in charge of global records policy management, later taking charge of aspects of IT Security Policy development and managing the risk and security components of the bank's 2007 CHF 1.6bn network outsourcing (for which she received a "One Bank" award).  She then went on to lead the bank's European infrastructure client services technology risk team.  Dr. Lemieux joined UBC in July 2008 and established CiFER.  In 2009, she was among 10 new academics at the University to be presented with the Peter Wall Institute's Early Career Scholar Award.  She is the author of award-winning publications on records and risks.  Dr. Lemieux has been a designated Certified Information Security Systems Professional since 2005. 

• Sherry Xie, Research Assistant
• sherryx@interchange.ubc.ca

• Sherry L. Xie, MLIS, McGill University, MAS, University of British Columbia, and a PhD student at the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, University of British Columbia. She has worked as subject librarian and records manager in academic and government settings and is currently conducting research on electronic records management in highly regulated environments. She has been working since 2004 for the InterPARES Project as a graduate research assistant on all aspects relating to electronic records management and digital presentation under the direction of Dr. Luciana Duranti. Sherry joined CiFER in September 2008.

• Lior Limonad, Research Assistant
• lior.limonad@sauder.ubc.ca

• Lior Limonad is currently a Ph.D. student in the Management Information Systems Division at Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia, Canada. He holds a B.Sc. degree in Industrial Engineering and Management with a major in Information Systems and an M.Sc. degree in Information System Engineering, both from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. His doctoral research is in the domain of IT and business controls. Lior's general interests are in the areas of systems analysis and design, conceptual modeling, ontological applications to information systems, and software engineering.

• Elaine Goh, Research Assistant
• nicolette_elaine@yahoo.com

• Elaine Goh is currently a Ph.D student from the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, University of British Columbia. She holds a BSocSc degree from the National University of Singapore and a MAS degree from the University of British Columbia. She has worked as an archivist at the National Archives of Singapore and has been involved in research for the InterPARES project first as a Masters student, Chair of the Asian Research Team (2003-2006) and currently as a doctoral student. Elaine's research interest is in the area of financial records management and preservation as well as the impact of organizational culture on records creation and recordkeeping.

• Rebecca Martens, Graduate Administrative Assistant
• becca.jayne@gmail.com

• Rebecca Martens is currently an MLIS in the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, University of British Columbia.  She holds a B.A. degree in History from the University of Victoria.  Rebecca has a background in public libraries and the administrative sector and is pursuing a career in corporate and government libraries.  Rebecca joined CiFER in January 2010.

• Kafui Monu , Graduate Research Assistant
• kmony@interchange.ubc.ca

• Kafui Monu is currently a PhD. Candidate at the University of British Columbia, specializing in Management Information Systems at the Sauder School of Business. He holds a Bachelor in Commerce (Honours) from the University of Manitoba with a double major in marketing and management information systems, as well as an MSc. in Management Information Systems from the University of British Columbia. His main research interest is involving users in the system analysis process by representing their view of their work. This research focuses on developing a technique to represent the users' view of their behaviour in the organization, and is called the Organizational Actor Modeling Methodology. This technique closes the gap between the user and the developer in the software development process by providing a structured model of the users' unstructured data. The work has been used to successfully represent scenarios in disaster management and retail.  Kafui joined CiFER in May 2010.