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Professor Marie Battiste is a Mi'kmaw educator from the Potlotek First Nation, Nova Scotia and full professor at the Department of Educational Foundations at the University of Saskatchewan. She is the founding academic director of the Aboriginal Education Research Centre (AERC) at the University of Saskatchewan, a founding board member of the Canadian Council on Learning, and a former co-director of the Aboriginal Learning Knowledge Centre. She currently heads a SSHRC-funded research hub called...
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Chairman of Institut Mérieux Born in Lyon in 1938, Alain Mérieux followed in the footsteps of his father and grandfather, who were eminent researchers in the health sciences. His education in both pharmacology and business gave him the unique ability to understand the importance of higher education and research while effectively managing a range of successful foundations and companies in France and abroad. In 1963, he founded a company specializing in biodiagnostics and continued his father’s...
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A graduate of the University of Montreal and the University of London, Robert Décary practiced law in Montreal and then in Gatineau for two decades while serving in the federal public service, including as special assistant to the Secretary of State for External Affairs and as co-director of research for the Task Force on Canadian Unity (Pepin-Robarts report). During the 1980s, he provided political and legal analyses for influential Quebec newspapers Le Devoir and La Presse, as well as on tel...
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As a member of a well-known family of intellectuals who have historic ties to Laval University, Jean-Marie De Koninck first attended that institution before earning a master’s degree and doctorate from Temple University in Philadelphia. In 1972, he returned to Laval University to take up a faculty position in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, where he not only made impressive scientific contributions, but also participated in sports and social causes. His work as a professor has al...
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Alumnus Calin Rovinescu's distinguished career in corporate law, as a managing partner with Stikeman Elliott, and in business, as cofounder of Genuity Capital Markets, served him well when he became President and CEO of Air Canada in 2009. Under his leadership, and during a time of economic turbulence, he piloted the company's rise from the brink of bankruptcy to soaring profitability while eliminating the significant drag of its $3.7 B pension plan deficit. As a result, in 2013, he was named ...
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Gilles Brassard received a PhD in computer science in 1979 from Cornell University, specifically in cryptography. Since then, he has been a professor at the Université de Montréal and has held the Canada Research Chair in quantum information processing since 2001.Professor Brassard is interested in all aspects of quantum information science, a field that is at the crossroads of computer science and quantum mechanics. In the late 1970’s, he was one of the first researchers to apply quantum mecha...
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Dr. Jean-Pierre Changeux is Professor Emeritus at the Collège de France and at the Department of Neurosciences at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. He is one of the world’s leading molecular biologists and scientific theoreticians, and a pioneer of modern molecular pharmacology and neuroscience. Although he is known for his research in several fields, his seminal work has been on the structure and function of allosteric proteins, on isolating and determining the structure of the first neurotransm...
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Gururaj “Desh” Deshpande is a venture capitalist and entrepreneur born in Hubli, Karnataka, India. He holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, an MEng in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Brunswick, and PhD in Data Communications from Queens University, Kingston.Although an engineer by training, he is most often considered a “serial entrepreneur”, and has pursued an entrepreneurial career for the past three decades. He is the foun...
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Dr. Gilles Julien’s mission is to enable children from vulnerable backgrounds to grow and develop their potential. He is a visionary leader who has created a preventive approach, community social pediatrics, which ensures that all children’s rights under the Convention on the Rights of the Child are respected. Over the years, he has mobilized people in low-income Montreal neighbourhoods by establishing two social pediatrics centres, Assistance d’enfants en difficulté, in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, ...
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As Chief Anchor and Senior Editor of CTV NEWS WITH LISA LAFLAMME since 2011, Lisa LaFlamme leads the country’s number one newscast. An accomplished journalist, LaFlamme quickly cemented her role as the face of news in Canada, winning highest honours at the 2014 Canadian Screen Awards, with recognition for both Best National News Anchor and Best National Newscast. In addition, since becoming an anchor, LaFlamme has won the prestigious Radio-Television News Directors Association Bert Cannings Awa...
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