Céline Saint-Pierre is a retired professor of sociology and Researcher Emeritus of the Inter-university Centre of Research in Science and Technology at the University of Quebec at Montreal. She is a former vice-rector of teaching and research at the same institution. From 1997 to 2002, she was the president of Quebec’s Conseil supérieur de l’éducation and afterwards, director of development and, since 2006, Chair of the Board of Directors of the Chaire Fernand-Dumont sur la culture. She has served on a number of commissions and councils, including the Bouchard – Taylor Commission on the accommodation practices related to cultural differences, the Commission for the Estates General on Education, the Quebec Council on the Status of Women, the Expert’s Committee of Quebec’s Commission on the Financing of Continuing Education, and the Executive Committee of the Canadian Commission for UNESCO. She was Co-Director of the UQAM project to renew the system of higher education in Guinea. She is also the co-founder of the Institut du Nouveau Monde, a member of the Royal Society of Canada, and a member of the Board of Directors of Frontier College. She has been honoured by the French government with the Chevalier de l’Ordre du mérite and holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Moncton.