Collier Azak

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Collier H. Azak is a graduate from the British Columbia Institute of Technology in Forest Resources Technology. He retired in 2023 as CEO of Nisga’a Lisims Government, a position that he held for 10 years. Mr. Azak continues to be involved with the Ksi Lisims LNG Project in an advisory capacity. From 2000 to 2013, he held the position of Director of Lands and Resources with the Nisga’a Lisms Government. Before that, he was a member of the Nisga’a Treaty negotiating team, the first modern Treaty in British Columbia.

Prior to his employment with the Nisga’a Nation, Mr. Azak was involved in the forestry sector in the Nass Area, both with a BC Forest Company and his home community logging company where he served on a number of provincial and national forest advisory committees. He was one of the first elected School Trustees in his home community when the Nass Valley joined the provincial school system in 1974. Mr. Azak also served as an elected councilor and Chief Councillor in his home community for several terms prior to the Nisga’a Treaty.

Mr. Azak is Nisga’a by ancestry and is a fluent Nisga’a speaker. His Nisga’a name is Sim’oogit Akshl Hlyoon, from the house of Ni’isyus of the Gisk’aast or Killerwhale tribe. He and his wife, Lorna, reside in their home community of Gitwinksihlkw. They are blessed with five grown children and many grandchildren, both from their immediate and extended family.