Margaret Kenequanash
CEO

Wataynikaneyap Power

Margaret Kenequanash is an accomplished executive with more than 25 years of senior leadership experience advancing energy infrastructure, governance, and community development initiatives across northern Ontario, Canada. She has been CEO of Wataynikaneyap Power since August 2017: an Indigenous-led, licensed transmission entity that brought grid connection to remote First Nations previously powered by diesel generators.

Ms. Kenequanash carries the distinction of being the first female Chief in her community at North Caribou Lake First Nation when she was elected in 1996. She was a member of the Sioux Lookout Municipal Council from 1990-1994 and Executive Director of Shibogama First Nations Council from 2005-2017.

To acknowledge her leadership in the development of Wataynikaneyap Power, Ms. Kenequanash was named a “Changemaker” by The Globe and Mail in 2022. She received an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Lakehead University in 2025.

Ms. Kenequanash is well known and respected throughout First Nation communities and government for her work in promoting opportunities and better quality of life for First Nation Peoples.