Senior Business Advisor, Dentons Canada LLP
Pierre Lortie is Chairman of the Board of emka TECHNOLOGIES; Director of PixMob; Director of Groupe Touchette; Director of the Marine Biotechnology Research Center and Chair of the Advisory Committee, Information Integrity Laboratory, University of Ottawa. He is also Chairman of The Schmeelk Canada Foundation; President of the Canadian Ditchley Foundation and Honorary Governor of the Ditchley Foundation (U.K.).
Pierre held senior executive positions at Bombardier until December 2003 where he served as President and COO of Bombardier Transportation; President and COO of Bombardier Capital; President and COO of Bombardier International; and President of Bombardier Aerospace, Regional Aircraft. He has been Chairman, President and CEO of Provigo Inc.; President and CEO of the Montreal Stock Exchange and a Senior Partner of SECOR Inc.
Pierre served as Governor of the Council of Canadian Academies and as President of the Canadian Academy of Engineering. Pierre held several government appointments. He served as Chairman of Canada’s Royal Commission on Electoral Reform and Party Financing. He was a representative of the Prime Minister of Canada on the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) from 1999 to 2003. He also served as a member of the Panel of Advisors of the China Development Research Foundation of China’s State Council (Beijing). He also served as member of the Panel of Senior Advisors of the Auditor General of the Government of Canada.
In the technology field, he served as Vice Chairman of Canada’s National Advisory Board on Science and Technology and as Chairman of the Centre for Information Technology Innovation. He also served as a Director of the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Center between 2010 and 2024 and of Flyscan Inc. between 2017 and 2024.
He served as Chairman of the Montréal Demerger Transition Committee and he directed, as the Representative of the public authorities, the PPP procurement of the new McGill University Health Center (MUHC), the Centre hospitalier universitaire de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM) and the Research Centre of the CHUM.
He received an M.B.A. with honors from the University of Chicago, a licence in applied economics from the Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium and a Bachelor’s degree in applied sciences (engineering physics) from Université Laval. He was awarded a Doctorate Honoris Causa in civil law from Bishop’s University and he was awarded the Distinguished Service to Canada Award by the Public Policy Forum. He received his certification from the Canadian Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD.D). He was elected Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (FCAE) in 1988 and appointed Senior Fellow of the C.D. Howe Institute in 2019.
Pierre was appointed member of the Order of Canada (CM) in 2001 and was the Recipient of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal (EIIR) in 2012.