Victoria Louise Lemieux (born 27 March 1963) is a Canadian specialist in records management and Associate Professor of Archival Studies at the University of British Columbia (UBC). She is known for her research into financial information management, risk mitigation including using blockchain technology in risk reduction.
Early years and education
Victoria Louise Lemieux (née Bryans) was born in Toronto in 1963. She obtained a master's degree in Archival Studies from the University of British Columbia around 1985, and began a career as a records and information management professional. In 2002 she obtained a doctorate from University College London with a thesis that examined information-related causes of the Jamaican Financial Crisis of 1996–1997. She became a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) in 2005.
Career
City of Edmonton
Lemieux was director of information services for the City of Edmonton, where she improved records management in the City Clerk's Office. She was promoted to Director of Corporate Records and Information Services, where she was responsible for all the city's records.
University of the West Indies
In September 1993 Lemieux became the campus records manager at the University of the West Indies (UWI). In 1997 she was promoted to University Archivist at the UWI, and was responsible for modernizing the registry system on three campuses. She also expanded the University's records management certificate program to train public sector workers throughout the Caribbean region. She provided consulting on improving efficiency and accountability of records management in several English-speaking Caribbean countries. She left UWI in July 2001.
World Bank
Lemieux was a consultant at the World Bank from July 2001 to September 2002. She audited the human resources and payroll systems of governments in Uttar Pradesh (India), Tanzania, Burkina Faso and Chile. She returned to the World Bank as a senior public sector specialist from July 2014 to June 2016, on leave from the University of British Columbia. She worked on supporting economic and social development through transparency and information management, and was a leader of several big data analytics projects. Lemieux led the imProvenance Group funded by the World Bank. She advised the World Bank, associated international development agencies and the bank's client developing countries on transparency and information management.
Credit Suisse
After completing her doctorate at UCL in 2002 Lemieux joined the global investment bank Credit Suisse. She was vice president, IT risk management. In 2007 she was responsible for the information technology risk and security components of a major project to outsource the bank's network infrastructure. In this project she applied her pioneering theory of risk-based records management.
Consultant
In 2008 Lemieux founded CIFER, the Centre for the Investigation of Financial Electronic Records. After the Financial crisis of 2007–2008 she worked with the Office of Financial Research of the United States Department of the Treasury to introduce records management concepts to financial regulators and to promote transparency in the global financial system. She was Canadian representative to the TC68 Technical Committee on Financial Services of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). She has also served as a consultant to the United Nations and the Commonwealth Secretariat.
University of British Columbia
From July 2012 to July 2014 Lemieux was director of the Media & Graphics Interdisciplinary Centre (MAGIC) at the University of British Columbia (UBC), where she established the Digital Salon for use by the Digital Humanities. In April 2014 she became an Associate Professor in Archival Science at the University of British Columbia (UBC). She contributed to design of courses on Information Technology Security, Information Assurance and Risk Management; Financial Records; and Information Visualization and Visual Analytics.