Montreal, October 8th, 2024 – Transfert Environnement et Société is delighted to announce that Marie-Hélène Gauthier has joined its permanent team as Executive Advisor on Governance.
After 8 months as a Public Participation collaborator, it became clear to the management team that Ms. Gauthier’s role was set to grow.
“Marie-Hélène quickly stood out for her cutting-edge expertise and strong leadership qualities with our team. Totally committed and invested from the start, endowed with extraordinary talents and a fine knowledge of the issues we deal with, not to mention her ability to listen, her quick-wittedness and her solution-oriented approach: we were completely charmed by her remarkable qualities,” explains Alex Craft, Co-founder, Partner and Chairman of the Board.
With her exceptional background and in-depth knowledge of our niches of expertise and sectors of intervention, Ms. Gauthier will play a key role for Transfert’s team and customers.
A member of the Institut de médiation et d’arbitrage du Québec (IMAQ) and an accredited mediator since 2017, Ms. Gauthier has also been a member of the Canadian Impact Assessment Agency’s Science and Knowledge Technical Advisory Committee since 2022. Her talents as a facilitator, as well as the relevance of her strategic advice, have already won over our teams and clients, who are delighted to work with her.
Before joining Transfert, she worked for ten years at the Bureau d’audiences publiques sur l’environnement (BAPE), where she held various positions, including that of interim president from 2022 to 2023.
Previously, from 2011 to 2020, she was a lecturer in the Department of Legal Sciences at the Université du Québec à Montréal, where she taught municipal law, environmental law and major risk management. She was also a lecturer at the Faculté de l’aménagement de l’Institut d’urbanisme de l’Université de Montréal during this period.
Her knowledge of the regulatory and legislative framework, along with the Quebec and federal assessment processes, and her participation in a dozen commissions of inquiry, make her an invaluable asset to our team.
Transfert is pleased that Marie-Hélène Gauthier has chosen to devote her energy and great talents to its mission full-time, and thanks her warmly for her commitment.
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Transfert Environnement et Société is an impact firm specializing in public participation. Its mission is to build bridges between project initiators and their host communities. B Corp certified and backed by a talented team, Transfert Environnement et Société works with companies in the mining, industrial, land development, transportation and renewable energy sectors. The company’s unique expertise aims to reconcile the business objectives of companies with the socio-economic, community and environmental needs and expectations of local communities. Transfert Environnement et Société advocates a win-win approach for organizations, civil society, citizens and the environment.