Jean Charest
• Member of the Supervisory Board
• Chair of the Audit Committee
• Member of the Nominating Committee
First appointment: May 29, 2013 Expiry of term of office:
Annual Ordinary General Shareholders’ Meeting
2021 Number of shares held: 1,400 McCarthy Tétrault
Bureau 2500 1000, rue de la Gauchetière-Ouest
Montreal Quebec H3B 0A2 Canada
Biography
A trained lawyer, Jean Charest was elected to Canada’s House of Commons in 1984. At age 28, he was appointed Minister of State for Young People. He was also Minister for the Environment (leading the Canadian delegation at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992), Minister for Industry, Deputy Prime Minister of Canada then Prime Minister of Quebec from 2003 to 2012. He is currently a partner in McCarthy Tétrault SENCRL, s.r.l and a member of the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada.
Other offices and positions held within the Group
None
Main offices and positions held outside the Group
• Partner, Senior Lawyer and Strategic Advisor: McCarthy Tétrault law Firm (Canada)
• Chair of the Board of Directors: Windiga Énergie (Canada)
• President of the Board of Governors: The Federal Ideal (Canada)
• Consultative Board member: Woodrow Wilson Center – Canada Institute (Canada), Canadian Global Affairs Institute (Canada), Forum Africa (Canada)
• Member of the Canadian group of the Trilateral Commission (Canada)
• Advisor: Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission (Canada)
• Director: Fondation Asie Pacifique (Canada), Ondine Biomedical (Canada), HNT Electronics Co Ltd (South Korea)
• Honorary Chair of the Board of Directors: Canada ASEAN Business Council (Singapore)
• Member of the Supervisory Board, member of the Compensation and Appointments Committee and member of the International Advisory Board: Tikehau Capital SCA, listed company (France)
• Member: Canadian Council of the North American Forum (Canada), Leaders pour la Paix (Leaders for Peace) (France)
• Permanent representative member: Chardi, Inc. (Canada)
• Honorary Chair of the Board of Directors: Council of the Great Lakes Region (Canada)
• Joint-Chair of the Board of Directors: Canada UAE Business Council (Canada)
Offices and positions held outside the Group in the last five years
Positions listed above as well as the following offices:
• Member of the panel of experts: Public Policy Forum (Canada) (term expired in 2018)
• National Joint-Chair and Spokesperson: Mouvement Canada 2017 Redonner (Canada) (term expired in January 2016)
• Chair of the Steering Committee: Partnership for Natural Resources Trade (Canada) (term expired in 2015)