Caroline Pestieau

Caroline Pestieau has worked for most of her professional life at linking teaching, research and policy. She has taught at the University of the West Indies, the Cegep de St. Laurent and Concordia University and conducted and managed research at the C.D. Howe Institute. She was formerly Vice President, Programs and Partnership, at the International Development Research Centre, and before that Deputy Chair of the Economic Council of Canada. From 2000-2007, she chaired the Board of the African Economic Research Consortium which supports policy-relevant research in 25 African countries. From 2003 to 2009 she was a member of the Governing Board of the International Crop Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics. She is a Research Associate of the North South Institute and a Senior Fellow of the Centre on Governance and of the School of International Development and Globalization Studies at the University of Ottawa.

Caroline Pestieau was a founding member of the Quebec Council on the Status of Women and one of the first three Commissioners of the Quebec Commission on Access to Information & Protection of Privacy. She currently volunteers on the Board of Carty House, an organization for immigrant & refugee women.