Champagne St-Arnaud, Valériane (EN)

Valériane Champagne St-Arnaud is a professor in the marketing department at Université Laval and a specialist in marketing applied to eco-responsible issues. As the head of the "Climate Marketing Communication Research Group", her research focuses on optimizing and evaluating the effectiveness of marketing campaigns promoting individual and collective climate action. Coordinator of the Quebec Climate Action Barometer for several years, she has an excellent knowledge of what motivates and hinders the Quebec population to take action on climate challenges.

Bourque, Julien (EN)

Julien Bourque specializes in integrating work on clean growth with resilience and climate change. Following a position with Natural Resources Canada, Climate Change Adaptation Division, Mr. Bourque spent over three years developing and implementing urban greening projects with local communities to increase resilience to climate change. His on-the-ground experience combined with a clear vision of the key issues gives him the perspective to provide practical environmental policy recommendations.

Dallaire, Gabrielle (Rio Tinto, EN)

Gabrielle Dallaire is a water resources analyst for the Technical Services of Rio Tinto Aluminium. She obtained a master degree in applied sciences from the École de Technologie Supérieure in 2019. She is a part of the water resources team of Rio Tinto for almost two years. Currently, Gabrielle is involved in the operational water management of the Lac Saint-Jean and in various projects such as the integration of climate change into management tools.

Latraverse, Marco (Rio Tinto, EN)

Marco Latraverse is a researcher for the Technical Services of Rio Tinto Aluminum. He obtained a PhD in Water Sciences at INRS University in Ste-Foy, Quebec with a specialization in statistical hydrology in 2000. Before joining Rio Tinto in 2008, he worked for Hydro-Quebec from 2000 to 2008 where he was mainly involved in the modelisation of inflows as inputs for stochastic optimisation models. At Rio Tinto, he mainly works on uncertainty modeling of meteorological and hydrological data.

Paquin, Jean (Rio Tinto, EN)

Jean Paquin is a senior civil engineer for the Technical Services of Rio Tinto Aluminum. He has been involved in operational water management since 2001 for RTA assets in Québec and in British Columbia. He is now the Principal Advisor for in the Hydrology team. He is mostly involved in inflow forecast, energy planning and long and short-term optimization. Jean also contributes to various R&D projects, especially in the commissioning of new models. He obtained a master degree in applied sciences from Université de Shebrooke in 2000.

Chavaillaz, Yann (Hydro-Québec, EN)

Yann Chavaillaz is a climatologist with 9 years of professional experience in climate science and climate change issues. He completed a bachelor's degree in physics and a master's degree in climate science, before completing his PhD in climate modeling. He has conducted research on the evolution of climate extremes in Canada, on the impact of climate change on precipitation patterns and on the loss of worker productivity during heat waves. After three years as a climate risk and resilience consultant, he joined the greenhouse gas and climate change expertise unit at Hydro-Québec.

Martin, Jean-Philippe (Hydro-Québec, EN)

Jean-Philippe Martin is a geographer with 12 years of professional experience in physical geography, climate change and risk management. He completed his Ph.D. in physical geography on the relationship between climate and weather patterns and the occurrence of high intensity avalanches. After a postdoctoral fellowship in paleoclimatology on the reconstruction of river temperatures and flows in the Northwest Territories, Jean-Philippe was a consultant and team leader in climate risk and resilience at WSP. He joined Hydro-Québec in 2021.

N'Cho, Danielle (EN)

Adèle Danielle N'Cho is a master's student in actuarial and financial mathematics at UQAM and holds a bachelor's degree in actuarial science. She is currently completing her thesis under the supervision of Professor Mathieu Boudreault. Her research project has received financial support from Mitacs and the Ouranos consortium as part of the Mitacs Acceleration program. Her objective is to mathematically analyze the rationality of an owner's choice to stay, relocate, immunize or insure a property at risk of flooding.
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