Our Team

Board of Directors

  • Isabelle Delisle, Chair of the Board of Directors, Ouranos; Scientific Director, National Institute of Scientific Research (INRS)

  • Laniel Bateman, Director, Climate Change Adaptation Policy and Resilience, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)

  • Isabelle Bouffard, Head of Economic Affairs and Director, Agricultural Research and Policy Division, Union des Producteurs Agricoles (UPA)

  • Céline Cusson, Director, Environment, Principal Directorate for Environment, Real Estate and Project Performance, Hydro-Québec

  • Érika Desjardins-Dufresne, Director General, Taxation and Climate Transition, Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing (MAMH)

  • Geneviève Masse, Assistant Deputy Minister, Sustainable, Territorial and Sectoral Development, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAPAQ)

  • Lucie Ménard, Vice-Rector, Research, Creation and Knowledge Dissemination, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM)

  • Sylvain Nadeau, Director, Research and Innovation – Energy Systems and Customers, Hydro-Québec Research Institute (IREQ)

  • Kristina Öhrvall, Associate Vice-Principal, Research Development, McGill University

  • Frédéric Picard, Acting Vice-Rector, Research, Creation and Innovation, Université Laval

  • Jean Savard, Associate Deputy Minister, Civil Security and Fire Safety, Quebec Ministry of Public Security (MSP)

  • Jocelyn Savoie, Assistant Deputy Minister, Climate and Energy Transition Office, Ministry of Environment, Climate Change, Wildlife and Parks (MELCCFP)

  • Francis Zwiers, Former Director, President and CEO (retired), Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium (PCIC)

 

Observers - administrators without voting rights

  • Annie Blouin, Director of Organizational Support, Ministère de l'Économie, de l'Innovation et de l'Énergie (MEIE)

  • Alain Bourque, General Manager, Ouranos

  • Caroline Larrivée, Director of Scientific Programming, Ouranos

  • Simon Francoeur, Treasurer, Director of Administrative Management and Organizational Performance, Ouranos

  • Anne-Cécile Cottin, Secretary, Executive Assistant, Ouranos

 

Scientific council

  • Michel Jean, Chair of the Scientific Council, President, Infrastructure Commission (INFCOM), World Meteorological Organization; Associate Emeritus, Meteorological Service of Canada, ECCC

  • Lola Corre, Climatologist, Météo France

  • Gregory Flato, Director, Climate Research Division, Science and Technology Branch, ECCC

  • Martin Fortier, Assistant Vice-Rector, Internationalization and Promotion of Research, Creation and Innovation, Université Laval

  • Vincent Fortin, Scientist, ECCC

  • Chris Furgal, Associate Professor, Assoc Director, Chanie Wenjack School for Indigenous Studies, Co-Director - Indigenous Environmental Studies & Sciences Program, Trent University

  • Stéphane Hallegatte, Senior Economist, Climate Change Group, World Bank

  • Daniel Henstra, Professor of Political Science and co-lead of the Climate Risk Research Group, University of Waterloo

  • Bertrand Millot, Head of Sustainability, CDPQ

  • Linda Mortsch, Retired, ECCC and University of Waterloo

  • Roger Street, Retired, Oxford University and ECCC

  • Basile Van Havre, Co-Chair for the Convention on Biological Diversity’s Open-Ended Working Group

 

Financial management is handled by senior management and overseen by a firm of auditors reporting to the Board of Directors.

Logistics are handled by an administrative group and a computer services group.

Senior management oversees the scientific program, subject to approval by the Board of Directors. An external scientific council, consisting of independent researchers, advises the Executive Director on scientific aspects of the program.

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