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Pierre Lortie
BSc. Appl., P. Eng., Lic. Appl.écon., M.B.A.
Senior Business Advisor

Office: Montréal

Languages Spoken: French, English

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Pierre Lortie is Senior Business Advisor at Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP, a major law firm recognized as a leader in business related legal matters across Canada. He is also the Representative of the Public Authorities with regard to the McGill University Health Center (MUHC), the Centre hospitalier universitaire de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM) and the Centre hospitalier universitaire de Québec (CHUQ) modernization projects. Mr. Lortie is a Director of Group Canam, Dynaplas and Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc., Special Investor for CAI & Partners Corporation and Chairman of the Advisory Board (Quebec) of Consolidated Thompson Inc.

He has served as Chairman of the Montreal Demerger Transition Committee from its inception on June 21, 2004 to the end of the mandate on December 31, 2005.

He retired from Bombardier in December 2003 where he had 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 also served as Chairman of Canada’s Royal Commission on Electoral Reform and Party Financing.  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 Lortie is President of the Canadian Ditchley Foundation. He is a member of the Transportation Center Business Advisory Committee of Northwestern University (Chicago) and of the Canadian Academy of Engineering.

Mr. Lortie has held several government appointments. He has been a representative of the Prime Minister of Canada on the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) from 1999-2003. In the technology field, he has been Chairman of the Centre for Information Technology Innovation and Vice Chairman of Canada’s National Advisory Board on Science and Technology in 1987 – 1990.

He received an M.B.A. with honors from the University of Chicago, a licence in Applied Economics from the Université Louvain, Belgium and a Bachelor’s degree in Applied Sciences (Engineering Physics) from Université Laval, Canada. He has been awarded a Doctorate Honoris Causa in Civil Law from Bishop’s University. He received his certification from the Canadian Institute of Corporate Directors.

Mr. Lortie was appointed member of the Order of Canada in 2001.


AREAS OF EXPERTISE

EDUCATION
University of Chicago, M.B.A. "with honors", 1974
Université de Louvain (Belgium), Institut d’Administration et de Gestion, Licence in Applied Economics, 1974
Université Laval, Faculté des Sciences, Bachelor’s degree in Applied Sciences (Engineering Physics), 1970

Mr. Lortie provides strategic advice in several practice groups such as major infrastructures and public-private partnerships, financial services, corporate finance, aerospace and transportation, international trade, municipal affairs and public policies.
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REPRESENTATIVE WORK
Provides strategic advice in several practice groups such as major infrastructures and public-private partnerships, financial services, corporate finance, aerospace and transportation, international trade, municipal affairs and public policies
As Executive Director, Mr. Lortie directed the preparation of the business plans related to the design, construction, maintenance and financing (DBOF) of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) and Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM) university-teaching hospitals (PPP approach)

PUBLICATIONS

RECOGNITION
Member of the Order of Canada
Doctorat Honoris Causa in Civil Law, Bishop’s University
Distinguished Service to Canada, Public Policy Forum

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Director of Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc.
Director of Canam Group
Director of Dynaplas

PRO BONO
President of the Canadian Ditchley Foundation
Member of the Business Advisory Committee, The Transportation Center, Northwestern University

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
Member of the Advisory Council, Quebec English School Board Association

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