BIOGRAPHY

Thomas George Nevakshonoff

Email: tom@cerbanet.org

Born on the 22nd December, 1958 in Winnipeg, MB, CANADA.

Tom recently retired from a lengthy political career in the Manitoba
Legislative Assembly having served four terms in office from 1999-2016.
He was honoured to be a member of the Executive Council as the
Minister of Conservation and Water Stewardship. He was also the
Deputy Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, was Legislative Assistant to
a number of ministers over the years, chaired the Legislative Review
Committee of Caucus for over a decade as well as numerous Standing
Committees of the Assembly.
Prior to his political career, Tom spent almost two decades working in
the Alberta oilfields on the drilling rigs thereby gaining considerable
experience in heavy industry and resource extraction.
In 1987, he graduated from Carleton University in Ottawa with a BA
(Honours) in East European Studies. He wrote his thesis on the Russian
oil and natural gas industries which was a series of case studies of
Canadian firms that had succeeded in establishing themselves in that
marketplace.
For over a decade he was president of Aberdeen Lodge Ltd. Which is a
family-owned sport fishing business in northern Manitoba.
He and his wife, Rozanne, currently reside in rural Manitoba where they
operate a small sheep ranch.