Karine Glenn

Karine Glenn is Director of Regulatory Affairs at the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO), where her focus is on relationships with the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission and the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada. In addition to regulatory affairs, her portfolio also includes responsibility for the NWMO’s Environmental and Sustainability programs. Karine is a professional engineer in both Ontario and Québec, receiving her degree from Concordia University. Prior to joining the NWMO in August 2020, she worked at the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission from 2007 and held a number of positions of growing responsibility throughout her time there, including as Director of the Wastes and Decommissioning Division and of the Internal Quality Management Division and as Executive Advisor to the President. Karine started her time with the CNSC as a Project Officer in their Transportation Division, building from her previous experience as a Package Engineer with MDS Nordion, designing and testing nuclear transportation packages. She has represented Canada at the International Atomic Energy Agency on both the Transportation and the Waste Safety Standards Committees and as a delegate to the 5th and 6th review meetings of the Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management. Karine has served on the Nuclear Energy Agency’s Radioactive Waste Management Regulators Forum Bureau and as the vice-chair of the CSA Technical Committees on Radioactive Waste and on Decommissioning and of the Technical Subcommittee for the development of CSA N292.4 Standard, Storage of radioactive waste and irradiated fuel. From 2022 to 2024, she was the technical secretary of the International Association for Environmentally Safe Disposal of Radioactive Waste (EDRAM). When she is not working, Karine enjoys fishing with her husband and adult son and walking her German Shepherd, Molly.