L. Jacques Ménard is Chairman of BMO Nesbitt Burns and President of BMO Financial Group, Quebec.

Mr. Ménard is currently a director of Claridge Inc., the Montreal Heart Institute, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the Montreal Alouettes, the Institute for Research on Public Policy, the Trudeau Foundation, the McDonald Stewart Foundation and the Fondation du Dr. Julien. He is Chairman of Fusion Jeunesse and is Vice-Chair of the Task Force on Financial Literacy created by the Minister of Finance of Canada.

Mr. Ménard is Deputy Chancellor of Concordia University and is a member of the Task Force on Competitiveness, Productivity and Economic Progress of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. He is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Institute of Corporate Directors (Quebec chapter) and a Board Associate of the Institute of Research on Public Policy, and sits on the International Advisory Board of HEC Montréal and the Advisory Board of Glendon College at York University.

Mr. Ménard is a past chairman of Hydro-Québec, the Investment Dealers Association of Canada and the Task Force on the Sustainability of the Quebec Health Care and Social Services System. He published his first book in 2008, “Si on s’y mettait…” and in the wake of this book, he established the Groupe d’action sur la persévérance et la réussite scolaires. Mr. Ménard subsequently published a book on the topic of high school perseverance, “Beyond the Numbers… a Matter of the Heart”.

In 2009, Mr. Ménard received the Public Policy Forum Testimonial Award and was recognized as a member of the Academy of Great Montrealers by the Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal.

Mr. Ménard is a graduate of Collège Sainte-Marie, Loyola College and the University of Western Ontario (MBA 1970). He has also received honorary doctorates from Concordia University, the Université de Montréal and the Université de Sherbrooke.

Mr. Ménard is an Officer of the Order of Canada and of the Order of Quebec.

(September 2010)

L. Jacques Ménard (high resolution picture, jpg, 1093k)