Dentons

Banking and Finance; International Trade; Public Policy and Regulation; Government; Infrastructure and PPP

Senior Business Advisor

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Pierre Lortie is a Senior Business Advisor at Dentons Canada LLP. He is also Executive Chairman of Quest Rare Minerals Ltd., and Director of Group Canam and Element Financial Corporation.

Pierre is President of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, a member of the Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Advisory Board of the Autorité des marches financiers du Québec, a Director of the Research Center of the McGill University Health Center and of the Canadian Center of Innovation for Manufacturers (ETS), President of the Canadian Ditchley Foundation, Chairman of The Schmeelk Canada Foundation, Governor of the U.K. Ditchley Foundation and Director and member of the Executive Committee of The Conference of Defence Associations Institute. He is also a Director of the Montreal Cancer Institute and of Festival Classica.

Pierre has recently served as a member of the Asia Pacific Foundation Taskforce on Canada’s strategies towards the regional institutional architecture that governs in Asia and of the Advisory Group on Enhancing cooperation between Australia and Canada in the Asia-Pacific of the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI),.

Pierre has held senior executive positions at Bombardier until December 2003 where he has served as President and COO of Bombardier Transportation; President and COO of Bombardier Capital; President and COO of Bombardier International; and President of Bombardier Aerospace, Regional Aircraft. He has been Chairman, President and CEO of Provigo Inc.; President and CEO of the Montréal Stock Exchange and a Senior Partner of SECOR Inc.

Pierre has held several government appointments. He served as Chairman of Canada’s Royal Commission on Electoral Reform and Party Financing. He was a representative of the Prime Minister of Canada on the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) from 1999 to 2003. He also served as a member of the Panel of Advisors of the China Development Research Foundation of China’s State Council (Beijing). In the technology field, he served as Vice Chairman of Canada’s National Advisory Board on Science and Technology and as Chairman of the Centre for Information Technology Innovation.

He served as Chairman of the Montréal Demerger Transition Committee from its inception on June 21, 2004 until the end of its mandate on December 31, 2005 and he directed, as the Representative of the public authorities, the PPP procurement of the McGill University Health Center (MUHC), the Centre hospitalier universitaire de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM) and the Research Center of the CHUM modernization projects.

He received an M.B.A. with honors from the University of Chicago, a licence in applied economics from the Université Louvain, Belgium and a Bachelor’s degree in applied sciences (engineering physics) from Université Laval. He was awarded a Doctorate Honoris Causa in civil law from Bishop’s University. He received his certification from the Canadian Institute of Corporate Directors. He was appointed Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering in 1988.

Pierre was appointed member of the Order of Canada in 2001.

Read Pierre's full biography here.

English; French

Governor of The Ditchley President-elect and Director, Canadian Academy of Engineering Director of the Montréal Cancer Institute Director of Festival Classica President of the Canadian Ditchley Foundation Chairman of The Schmeelk Canada Foundation Chairman of Biocean Canada inc

Université de Louvain (Belgium), 1974, Institut d’Administration et de Gestion, Licence in Applied Economics Université Laval, 1970, Faculté des Sciences, Bachelor’s degree in Applied Sciences (Engineering Physics