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

Office: Montréal

Languages Spoken: English, French

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Pierre Lortie is a 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 a Director of Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc., Consolidated Thompson Iron Mines Ltd and of Group Canam Inc. and a special investor for CAI & Partners Corporation.

He served as Chairman of the Montréal Demerger Transition Committee from its inception on June 21, 2004 until the end of its mandate on December 31, 2005 and he acted as 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.

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 Montréal Stock Exchange and a Senior Partner of Secor Inc. 

Pierre 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.

Pierre has held several government appointments. He was a representative of the Prime Minister of Canada on the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) from 1999 to 2003. In the technology field, he served as Chairman of the Centre for Information Technology Innovation and as Vice Chairman of Canada’s National Advisory Board on Science and Technology.

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 was awarded a Doctorate Honoris Causa in civil law from Bishop’s University. He received his certification from the Canadian Institute of Corporate Directors.

Pierre 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

Pierre provides strategic advice in several practice groups such as major infrastructures and public-private partnerships, corporate and project 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 infrastructure and public-private partnerships, financial services, corporate and corporate finance, aerospace and transportation, international trade, municipal affairs and public policies
As representative of the public authorities, Pierre directed the whole PPP procurement process for the design, construction, maintenance and financing (DBOF) of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) and the Research Center of the Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM) university teaching hospitals (P3 approach)

PUBLICATIONS
OECD Forum 2008: Financing Infrastructure
Op Eds in the Globe & Mail and Financial Post
"Economic Integration and the Law of GATT", Praeger Publishers, New York, London

RECOGNITION
Member of the Order of Canada
Doctorate 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 Consolidated Thompson Iron Mines Limited
Director of Canadian Academy of Engineering

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

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
Director, Institut du cancer de Montréal

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