Manon Jeannotte | |
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30th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec | |
Assumed office January 25, 2024 | |
Monarch | Charles III |
Governor General | Mary Simon |
Premier | François Legault |
Preceded by | J. Michel Doyon |
Personal details | |
Born | Canada |
Alma mater | McGill University |
Manon Jeannotte is a Canadian civil servant who serves as the 30th and current lieutenant governor of Quebec. [1] She is a member of the Mi'kmaq First Nation. [2] Following her appointment,the National Assembly of Quebec unanimously voted a non-binding motion to abolish the position of Lieutenant Governor. [3] She assumed the role of Lieutenant Governor on 25 January 2024,choosing to be sworn in at her office rather than in the National Assembly as is customary. [4]
Jeannotte holds an EMBA from McGill University and HEC Montreal. She is a Certified Corporate Director (CCD) from UniversitéLaval and has also completed a post-graduate microprogramme in interculturalism in Quebec at Universitéde Sherbrooke. [1]
Prior to her appointment as 30th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec, [5] Jeannotte was Director of the First Nations Executive Education at HEC Montréal,which she also co-initiated.
Jeannotte has made her mark with the Micmac Nation of Gespeg,first as a councillor from 2003 to 2008,then from 2011 to 2015,before taking on the role of Chief from 2015 to 2019.
Early in her career,she had the opportunity to write a memoir on the presence of the Mi'gma in the Gaspéregion for submission to the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada. She was then recruited through a pan-Canadian competition as an Aboriginal trainee analyst at Statistics Canada.
She has also been actively involved in a number of organisations and has sat on several boards of directors:
Jeannotte was named the most outstanding student in the McGill-HEC Montréal EMBA programme by ROB Magazine in 2017.
She also received a certificate of recognition from the Quebec Council of Senior Federal Officials for her contribution to the partnership for the "Commemoration of First Nations and Inuit History in Quebec".
She is a recipient of the King Charles III Coronation Medal (Canada). [6]
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