Leona Aglukkaq has served on the Agnico Eagle board since 2021 and chairs the Compensation Committee, also sitting on the Health, Safety, Environment and Sustainable Development Committee. She is an experienced politician and government administrator originally from the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut. First elected as a Member of Parliament in 2008, in 2009 she became the first Inuk in Canadian history to be appointed to Cabinet, as Minister of Health, and she chaired the Arctic Council from 2012 to 2015. She has held elected and public-official roles in the governments of Nunavut and the Northwest Territories and was a founding member of the Nunavut Impact Review Board.