Valerie Wilson

Valerie Wilson has been involved with the PDAC at the committee level since 2018, including the last two years as the co-chair of the CPC. During her tenure on the CPC, and as a PDAC member (since 2012), she has participated and led the working group on PDAC short courses, contributed as a chair on many technical sessions, contributed as a panelist for Mentorship for Women in Mining as part of the Student Industry Forum (2016) , as a speaker at PDAC’s annual S-IMEW Workshop in Sudbury and the Convention Kickstart event designed to orient students at the PDAC (both in 2023). She has also been a short course presenter in 2018, 2021, 2022 and will present again in 2024.

Outside of PDAC, she manages a team of Resource Geologists within the consulting group SLR. Her work at SLR includes team supervision and mentorship in addition to carrying out various technical assignments that span due diligence reviews, Mineral Resource estimation and audits, technical report writing and training to support public disclosure, and corporate decision making. Valerie has experience working across all continents and in most commodity and deposit types.