Opening & Closing Remarks

F. Henry Lickers is a Haudenosaunee citizen of the Seneca Nation, Turtle Clan. 

Lickers was appointed as an IJC Commissioner in May 2019. Prior to his appointment he served as director of the Mohawk Council for 32 years including six years as the environmental science officer. Throughout his career, Lickers has been instrumental in incorporating First Nations people and knowledge into environmental planning and decision making.

Lickers previously served as a member of the IJC's current Great Lakes Science Advisory Board, including terms from 1987–91, 1997–2000, and 2014–2019. He served as principle investigator on the EAGLE (Effect on Aboriginal in the Great Lakes Environment) Project, the Naturalized Knowledge Systems Project, and the First Nations’ Community Health Indicators Project. He also served as director of the Ontario Professional Foresters Association, scientific co-chair of The Haudenosaunee Environmental Taskforce, vice president of the Board of Directors, St. Lawrence River Institute of Environmental Sciences, and a member of the Board of Directors for the Eastern Ontario Model Forest.

The recipient of a number of awards recognizing his lifelong service to the St. Lawrence River and service to many environmental and government organizations over his career, Lickers was given an Honorary Doctor of Science Degree from the State University of New York Syracuse.

He holds a Bachelor of Science (Biology and Geography) and undertook graduate studies at the University of Waikato in New Zealand, and was a Trent University Ph.D. Elder Council member.  

He resides in Akwesasne, Ontario.