Mr. Christian Levesque After a career as an entrepreneur and manager in the private sector in Canada and Tunisia, Mr. Levesque was elected President of a Chamber of Commerce in the Quebec City region of Canada in 2006, and subsequently Member of Parliament in 2007. As a member of the Quebec National Assembly, he served as Official Opposition critic for the Treasury, Public Finance and Economic Development portfolios. In 2009, he became President and CEO of the ADQ, a Quebec political party, and in 2011 played an active role in the creation of the Coalition Avenir Québec, which has formed the Quebec government since 2018.

In 2012, he founded his government relations and governance firm Levesque Stratégies. That same year, he was appointed by the Standards Council of Canada to act as president and head of the Canadian delegation for the creation of the ISO 37001 – Anti-corruption management systems standard. In 2017, he was appointed president and head of Canada’s delegation for the creation of ISO 37000 – Organizational Governance. Since 2022, he has been Chairman of the Scientific Committee for the only CSR certification standard, ESG1000.

Today, Mr. Levesque is a member of the board and outgoing president of the Cercle des ex parlementaires de l’Assemblée Nationale du Québec, as well as president of the democracy and parliamentarism committee of the Cercle des ex parlementaires de l’Assemblée Nationale du Québec, and acts as Senior Advisor in Governance and Forensic Leader for Francophone Africa at Deloitte and President of Global ETHIX, in addition to regularly speaking at international conferences.