Victoria Louise Lemieux (born 27 March 1963) is a Canadian specialist in records management and Professor of Archival Studies at the University of British Columbia (UBC).
[1][2] She obtained a master's degree in Archival Studies from the University of British Columbia around 1985, and began a career as a records and information management professional.
She audited the human resources and payroll systems of governments in Uttar Pradesh (India), Tanzania, Burkina Faso and Chile.
[citation needed] She returned to the World Bank as a senior public sector specialist from July 2014 to June 2016, on leave from the University of British Columbia.
She worked on supporting economic and social development through transparency and information management, and was a leader of several big data analytics projects.
In 2019 she was awarded $1,600,000 by Canada's Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) for a five-year project to train up to 139 students at the masters and PhD levels in different aspects of blockchain and distributed ledger technology.
The program was to start in January 2020 and would cover the areas of health and wellness, clean energy, regulatory technology and issues for indigenous residents.
She embraces tools and approaches from ontology, visual analytics, graph theory, information systems and philosophy to describe the internal structure of archive records, their provenance and how they represent networks.
[citation needed] She is a member of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Technical Committee 307 on Blockchains and Distributed Ledger Technology.