Jazlyn Melnychuk is the Managing Director and Defence & Technology practice lead at Bondy & Associates where she is a trusted advisor on advancing projects that serve Canada’s national interest. Since co-founding B&A, her team has helped secure over $80 million in funding and savings, as well as secured legislative changes that protect critical infrastructure and support the reshoring of key supply chains.
Jazlyn also serves as Research Manager for the Foreign Policy Program at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and sits on the Board of Directors for the NATO Association of Canada. She previously worked as a Senior Consultant at Enterprise Canada and as an Advisor to an Assistant Deputy Minister at the Department of National Defence, following several earlier roles in communications and analysis within the department, and at the NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence in Latvia.
In 2017, Jazlyn co-founded the Canada-NATO Field School, an applied defence and simulation training program based in Brussels, Rome, and Latvia, which now has over 300 alumni. Jazlyn’s work is defined by a deep-seated commitment to building a more secure and prosperous future for Canada.
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The mission of NATO Association of Canada is to promote peace, prosperity, and security through knowledge and understanding of the importance of NATO.
We strive to educate and engage Canadians about NATO and NATO’s goal of peace, prosperity and security. NATO Association of Canada ensures that we have an informed citizenry able to contribute to discussions about Canada’s role on the world stage.
As a leading member of the Atlantic Treaty Association (ATA), NATO Association of Canada has strong and enduring ties with sister organizations in many of the alliance countries, as well as members of NATO’s “Partnership for Peace” and “Mediterranean Dialogue” programmes. The NAOC has had a leading role in the recent transformation and modernization of the ATA, and helped to create and develop the Youth Atlantic Treaty Association (YATA).
The NAOC has strong ties with the Government of Canada including Global Affairs Canada and the Department of National Defence. We are constantly working to create and maintain relationships with international organizations such as the World Bank Group, the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development, NATO Headquarters, the International Criminal Court, and other prominent international NGOs and think tanks.
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