Criminologist and former Bloc MP Maria Mourani is Quebec’s new representative to UNESCO.
She'll be an emissary for human rights and freedoms.
She replaces Julie Miville-Dechêne in the Permanent Delegation of Canada to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in Paris.
Mourani was first elected in 2006 as a Bloc Quebecois MP, then re-elected twice, including in 2011.
She joined the NDP because she opposed the Parti Quebecois’ Charter of Values and that led to her expulsion from the Bloc caucus.
Liberal Melanie Joly beat Mourani in a high-profile battle in the Montreal riding of Ahuntsic-Cartierville.
Miville-Dechêne, the former president of the Council on the Status of Women in Quebec, served in the position for a llittle more than a year.
Mourani takes over her new post December 5.
-With files from CTV News