Appointed by the Council of Ministers on June 19, 2024, Mr. Henri-Paul Rousseau is Québec’s Delegate General in Paris and the Personal Representative of the Premier of Québec for La Francophonie.
He holds a PhD and a Master’s degree in Economics from the University of Western Ontario, as well as an Honours Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the Université de Sherbrooke.
He began his career as a professor at the Université du Québec à Montréal and Université Laval, where he served as Director of the Department of Economics from 1984 to 1986.
Mr. Rousseau subsequently held senior executive positions at several financial institutions, including National Bank of Canada, Boréal Assurances and Laurentian Bank, where he served as President and Chief Executive Officer from 1994 to 2002.
He then joined the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, serving successively as Chair of the Board of Directors, Chief Executive Officer and President and Chief Executive Officer, until 2008. He subsequently joined Power Corporation as Vice-Chair of the Board, a position he held from 2009 to 2017.
Prior to his appointment as Québec’s Delegate General in Paris, Henri-Paul Rousseau continued to share his expertise in academia. Among other positions, he was a Visiting Professor at the Paris School of Economics from 2018 to 2022, a Senior Fellow at the C.D. Howe Institute in Toronto, and an Associate Professor at HEC Montréal.
