Guylaine Saucier

Corporate Director
Chair of the Board, IGOPP
Chair of the Governance and Ethics Committee, IGOPP

Guylaine Saucier obtained a B.Comm. from École des hautes études commerciales, University of Montreal and Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants.  She was the President and CEO of Le Groupe Gérard Saucier Ltée, a major company specializing in forest products.

She is a Corporate Director and was recently Chair of the Joint Committee on Corporate Governance (CICA, CDNX, TSX). She sits on Boards of several major corporations, including Petro-Canada, Axa Assurance Inc., Bank of Montreal, CHC Helicopter Corp., Altran Technologies and Groupe Areva. In the past, she was Chair of the Board of directors of CBC/Radio-Canada. Mme Saucier was the first woman to be appointed President of the Quebec Chamber of Commerce. She became a Member of the Order of Canada in 1989 and Fellow of the Institute of Corporate Director in 2004.