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Co-President

The Co-Presidents are the main elected positions of the Rideau Students' Union, responsible for leading the union, coordinating and delegating with union members, Project Coordinators, and officers, and keeping the Board of Directors up to date with the status of the union. They work with the Board of Directors in some circumstances to make union leadership decisions, and decisions on the union's active responses, actions, reactions, and relevant affairs.

The role of Co-President replaced the roles of President and Vice-President in February 2022 (effectively May 2022 to elect new leadership), with the second revision constitution. Despite this, co-president-like leadership existed informally in the last executive cabinet before the constitutional revision.
​The Co-President is responsible for leading meetings and the overall direction of the union, coordinating with officers and staff on union affairs, and relaying relevant information to the board of directors.
Past Co-Presidents
Term
Co-Presidents
May 2022 - Jun 2022
Austin Wang and Sharanya Sivasathiyanathan
Jun 2022 - Sep 2022
Owen Oussoren (Interim) and Sharanya Sivasathiyanathan
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
Owen Oussoren and Sharanya ​Sivasathiyanathan
Jan 21, 2023
Faiz Jan and Sharanya Sivasathiyanathan
Jan 2023 - Present
Owen Oussoren and Sharanya Sivasathiyanathan

​​This section refers to content now obsolete to the union.

President

The President is  the main elected position of the Rideau Students' Union, and is responsible for guiding  committee chairs  and ambassadors in their operations, working with the  Governor  to make time-sensitive decisions, leading the planning of the general Union agenda in cooperation with Committee Chairs and Executives, chairing Union meetings, managing the executive branch of the Union, and the Governor and helping to guide the Union general direction  and operations.

The President appoints a  Vice President  to whom they may delegate tasks  and who takes on the responsibilities of the President if the President is temporarily unavailable.

The President role was replaced with the Co-President role, with the second revision constitution.
Past Presidents
Term
President(s)
Nov 2020 -
​Mar 2021
Faiz Jan
Mar 2021 -
​Aug 2021
Austin Wang
Aug 2021 -
May 2022
Mariam ElSahar
and
​Miriam Abdalla
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