Robert Parizeau

Corporate Director
Member of the Governance and Ethics Committee, IGOPP

Robert Parizeau served as Chairman of the Board, non-executive, of Aon Parizeau Inc., insurance brokers and risk management consultants, and in this capacity acted as advisor to the Aon Group in Québec. He chaired the board of the Fonds de solidarité FTQ, sat on the board of SCOR Reinsurance Company of Canada, was an independent member of the United Auto Parts pension fund committees and was also co-president of the board of the Québec section of the Institute of Corporate Directors.

He spent 20 years at the helm of Sodarcan Inc., an insurance brokerage, reinsurance and actuarial consulting firm. He has chaired the boards of Gaz Métro and the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal, and has been a director of National Bank, Power Corporation, Groupe Canam and Van Houtte.

Mr. Parizeau is a graduate of HEC Montréal (1957). In 2004, he received an honorary doctorate from Université de Montréal and in 2010 was named Director Emeritus by Université Laval. He is currently a member of the board of the Institute for governance of private and public organizations (IGOPP).