Sokchiveneath Taing Chhoan, ICUDE2023, MMCCU, CUDE, ADM.A. Sokchiveneath Taing Chhoan is the Senior Director of Socio-Economic Development and has served on the management committee of the Fédération des Coopératives du Nouveau-Québec (FCNQ) from 2011 to 2020, where he has held several positions over the past 31 years. His first mandate as Senior Director was to create the Nunavik Financial Services Cooperative, a banking service for all Nunavimmiut in the fourteen communities in partnership with the Caisse d'économie solidaire Desjardins from 2007 to 2015, and after that, he directed all local projects for the cooperatives and some FCNQ activities.  He was also responsible for insurance coverage for the 14 cooperatives, FCNQ, and 10 FCNQ subsidiaries.

He is a member of the Ordre des administrateurs agréés du Québec (ADM.A.) and graduated from Saint Mary's University in January 2021 with a Master's degree in Management of Cooperatives and Credit Unions (MMCCU). He completed a short Master's program in Financial Performance at TÉLUQ-UQAM (2006) and a Bachelor's in Management at HEC-Montréal (2003). His studies in accounting and finance, and his experience of the cooperative network, have enabled him to represent the FCNQ and its member cooperatives, and to sit on the boards of several organizations: Conseil québécois de la coopération et de la mutualité (CQCM), Caisse d'économie solidaire Desjardins, Table de concertation en économie sociale du Nunavik, delegate of Cooperatives and Mutuals Canada (CMC), Fonds de développement coopératif du Nunavik (President), delegate of The Co-operators, and participation on nine of the ten boards of FCNQ subsidiaries. He also sat on the Board of Directors of UNITÉ, a center for community development initiatives (1995-2005), and on the Board of Directors of the Société de coopération pour le développement international (SOCODEVI, 2010-2013).