OTTAWA – Andrea Rosen, the CRTC’s first chief compliance and enforcement officer who has negotiated more than $3 million in penalties during her tenure, has announced she will be retiring after almost 32 years in public service.
Rosen, who will retire at the end of September, took on the then-new CRTC position in 2010 and established the compliance and enforcement sector as it evolved from the first Do Not Call office in the Commission’s telecommunications department.
As chief compliance and enforcement officer, Rosen designed the operational criteria for the Do Not Call and Canada’s Anti-Spam law. She also launched the enforcement of the Internet Traffic Management and Loudness of Commercials policies.
“Andrea has been instrumental in forging a number of partnerships, including the International Do Not Call Network,” said CRTC Chair Jean-Pierre Blais of the announcement. “I have very much appreciated Andrea’s judgement and contributions to our senior management team.”
Before joining the CRTC, Rosen was the deputy commissioner responsible for the fair business practices branch at the Competition Bureau. During her 28 years there, she took a leadership role in forging many precedents in worldwide cartel investigations and drafted the Bureau’s first immunity program in 2000, which has led to hundreds of millions of dollars in price-fixing fines.
