Mr. Jacques Brind'Amour

Economist Jacques Brind'Amour has held a number of management positions, particularly in international cooperation and trade, industrial policy development, science and technology, public safety, insurance and highway safety in several Québec government departments and agencies, including the Ministère des Affaires internationales, the Ministère du Commerce extérieur et du Développement technologique and the Ministère de l'Industrie, du Commerce, de la Science et de la Technologie. In this department, he acted successively as assistant deputy minister of Technology, Policies and Economic Analysis (1991-1994), assistant deputy minister of Science, Technology, Policies and Economic Analysis (1994-1996) and as deputy minister (1996-1998). From November 1998 to February 2002, he was deputy minister of Public Safety. From February 2002 to January 2005, he was chairman of the board and CEO of the Société de l'assurance automobile du Québec.

On December 21, 2004, M. Brind'Amour was appointed chief executive officer and member of the board of directors of La Financière agricole du Québec.

In recent years, Mr. Brind'Amour has sat on the boards of the Société générale de financement (SGF) and the Société des alcools du Québec (SAQ), where he also chaired the audit committee. He has also been on the boards of venture companies as well as of business development research centres and institutes such as Innovatech, the Conseil de la science et de la technologie, the Centre de recherche informatique de Montréal, the Institut de recherche en PME and the Société québécoise de développement de la main-d'oeuvre.

As deputy minister for Public Safety, Mr. Brind'Amour represented the Government of Québec on the Advisory and Policy Committee (APC) of the International Centre for the Prevention of Crime (ICPC). He was also president of the Red Cross fundraising campaign in the public and parapublic sectors.

At the Société de l'assurance automobile du Québec, Mr. Brind'Amour was chairman of the board of the Fondation Marie-Robert for head trauma research. He also agreed to act as honorary president of Opération Nez rouge in 2003.

Mr. Brind'Amour took up his position with La Financière agricole du Québec on January 24, 2005. He is currently chairman of the board of Capital Financière agricole inc., the venture capital branch of La Financière agricole. Mr. Brind'Amour also chairs the board of directors of the Centre d'études sur les coûts de production en agriculture (CECPA) and, since November 2007, has been chairman of the board of Financière agricole du Québec-Développement international (FADQDI). He is also a member and a vice-president of the International Confederation for Agricultural Credit (CICA), and in 2006-2007, was president of the Association des économistes québécois (ASDEQ).