Daniel Gagnier and Claude Généreux join McGill’s Board of Governors
Stuart H. (Kip) Cobbett, Chair of McGill University’s Board of Governors, is pleased to announce the appointment of Daniel Gagnier and Claude Généreux as members of the Board, effective January 1, 2010.
“McGill University is fortunate to welcome to its Board two distinguished McGill graduates,” Mr. Cobbett said. “The expertise brought by Messrs. Gagnier and Généreux, both on public issues important to an institution like McGill as well as in strategic management, will be of great value in helping shape the University’s priorities.”
Daniel J. Gagnier served as Chief of Staff to Quebec Premier Jean Charest from 2007 to 2009. Formerly a Vice-President and Senior Vice-President at Alcan from 1995 to 2007, his responsibilities included communications, government relations, environment, health and safety. Mr. Gagnier has also held a number of positions with the governments of Canada, Ontario and Saskatchewan, notably as Chief of Staff to the premier of Ontario as well as in several diplomatic postings abroad. Mr. Gagnier joined the firm HKDP Communications and Public Affairs on January 11.
Mr. Gagnier has also served as President of the Canadian Brewers Association, chaired committees of the International Standards Organizations, the Board of Directors of the Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters, the Asia-Pacific Foundation of Canada and the Board of Sustainable Development Technology Canada. He currently chairs the Board of the International Institute for Sustainable Development. He holds a Master’s degree in Chinese history from McGill University and was an Australian National Fellow in Chinese Studies at the Australian National University.
Claude Généreux is currently a Senior Associate Director at McKinsey & Company, an international business consulting group he joined over 20 years ago. Now a leading expert in the fields of energy, technology as well as government, he advises a variety of companies in North America, Europe, Russia and the Middle East. After working in McKinsey’s Stockholm, Paris and Toronto offices, he returned to Quebec in 1991 to help launch the company’s Montreal office. He was location manager in Montreal from 2000 to 2003. From 2003 to 2008, he led McKinsey’s global Electric Power and Natural Gas Practice, from Paris.
Mr. Généreux has been a strong supporter of non-profit, philanthropic and educational organizations, including his alma mater and other universities. A Rhodes Scholar, he holds a Bachelor of Engineering from McGill University and a Master’s in Political Science and Economics from Oxford University.
The Board of Governors is the University’s highest governing body. It is composed of 25 voting members, including members at large, student, staff and faculty representatives, and two observers. It generally meets six times per year.
