June 26, 2019 – William Robson, President and CEO of the C.D. Howe Institute, announces the appointment of Guillaume Lavoie as a Senior Fellow.
“Guillaume’s insightful and innovative outlook on urban policy and the sharing economy will be a welcome addition to the C.D. Howe Institute,” said Robson. “We look forward to his contributions to addressing the policy challenges facing Canada’s cities.”
“I am honoured and proud to be associated with the C.D. Howe Institute, which embodies such a tradition of positive and insightful contribution to better public policies in Canada," said Lavoie. "Working with the C.D. Howe Institute on such fundamental policy challenges as the collaborative economy or budgetary transparency is a formidable catalyst to one’s commitment to help design better policies for Canadians.”
Guillaume Lavoie is a public policy entrepreneur, lecturer, and professional speaker. An expert on the collaborative economy and its impacts on public policies, Guillaume advises public and private organizations, and has been invited to give over 250 presentations on the topic, at home and abroad. The author of Canada’s first city bylaw on the sharing of private spaces, he also developed the country’s first university course on the collaborative economy and public policy, which he teaches at the National School of Public Administration (ENAP). In January 2018, he was appointed president of the Quebec Government working group on the collaborative economy.
A senior consultant at Voilà Information Design, Guillaume works with organizations to improve their presentation of data and budgetary information. He has worked in public diplomacy, international relations, and more recently, as a city councillor in Montreal, in urban affairs, and since, on issues pertaining to the collaborative economy.
Guillaume is a member of the Raoul-Dandurand Chair in diplomatic and strategic studies, and the co-founder of the Collège néo-classique.
Guillaume holds an MPA (ENAP), a B.A. in Industrial Relations, and Certificates in Administration, and Law (Laval University). In addition, he completed executive programs at the London School of Economics, and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. A Senior Fellow at the CD Howe Institute, and Public Policy Scholar at Woodrow Wilson Center, Guillaume is also a Fellow of Action Canada, the Jeanne-Sauvé Foundation, and Next City, and a laureate of the Public Policy Forum's Marcel Côté Award for leadership in public policy.
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