Saskatchewan’s new deputy agriculture minister is a familiar face to the industry.
Alanna Koch most recently served as president of the Canadian Agri-food Trade Alliance and was involved in world trade talks. She is a former director of Agricore United and served eight years as the executive director of the Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association.
Koch had also spent nine years with the provincial government during the 1980s.
She replaces Harvey Brooks, who held several deputy positions under the previous NDP administration.
The Saskatchewan Party government moved several deputies to new departments and fired others after taking office Nov. 21.
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Newcomers include Dale Botting, who leaves the Saskatchewan Trade and Export Partnership to become deputy of the new ministry of enterprise and innovation.
Denise Haas, who had been deputy of the regional economic and co-operative development department, moves to enterprise and innovation as an associate deputy.
The environment deputy, Elizabeth Quarshie, left the National Energy Board of Canada to take her new job.
In health, longtime health-care executive Gren Smith-Windsor is an associate deputy and will serve as acting deputy while a search is underway.
Audrey Roadhouse, formerly of the Regina Public School Board, is the new education deputy minister.
John Law remains at highways, and former agriculture deputy Doug Matthies remains deputy minister of finance.
