Our Team
Alain Bourque
Executive Director, Ouranos
Alain Bourque holds a Master’s in atmospheric science from Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM). He was a meteorologist/climatologist with Environment and Climate Change Canada from 1989 to 2001 where he worked on the Saguenay flood of 1996, the ice storm of 1998 and with climate services. At Ouranos since its creation in 2001, Mr. Bourque has implemented the Vulnerabilities, Impacts and Adaptation program which includes more than 200 projects. Since 2013, he serves as Executive Director. During his career, he has completed many regional, national and international scientific summaries and contributes regularly to media stories and policy discussions about climate change and adaptation.
Alain Bourque
Alex Bouchard
Alexandra Tanguay
Alexandra Roy
Alexandre Montpetit
Anie Perrault
Vice President, Public Affairs and Communications, adMare BioInnovations
Anie Perrault received her law degree from the University of Ottawa in 1992. From 1992 to 1995, she worked as a lawyer with Phillips & Vineberg (now Davies, Ward, Phillips & Vineberg), primarily in the areas of labour law and civil and commercial litigation. She has more than 25 years of professional experience in the public and private sectors. Her career has focused on communications and public affairs in genomics research and biotechnology. She has held several strategic positions in this field at a national level, including Vice-President of Communications for Genome Canada from 2001 to 2006. She currently serves as Vice President, Public Affairs and Communications at AdMare BioInnovations.
Ms. Perrault is a member (administrative judge) of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, where she hands down rulings in cases of discrimination and applies the Canadian Human Rights Act. She also serves as a mediator in certain cases before the Tribunal. Ms. Perrault is a certified member of the Institut de médiation et d’arbitrage du Québec.
She has been a certified corporate director (administratrice de sociétés certifiée – ASC) since 2013, credentials she earned from the Université Laval Collège des administrateurs de sociétés, and has chaired the Génome Québec Board of Directors since 2019. She currently sits on the boards of Loto-Québec (since 2011) and of the Fondation Jeanne Mance (since 2016). In addition, from 2016 to 2019, she served on the Board of Université de Sherbrooke. She has been a member of the Génome Québec Board and its finance committee since 2016.
In 2009, Ms. Perrault was elected city counsellor for the City of Bromont, an office she held for five years. She was also elected as Vice-President of the Réseau des élues municipales de la Montérégie-Est, a municipal association which supports women involved in municipal politics. Ms. Perrault was Press Officer, Director of Communications and Senior Advisor to the Right Honourable Joe Clark and a Policy Advisor to various members of Parliament from 1989 to 2000.