Participants

4 April 2024

14:20 – 15:05

Amphi 2

Luc Bernier

Luc Bernier is a full professor at the University of Ottawa’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, where he held the Jariskowski Chair in Public Sector Management from 2016 to 2021. He teaches public policy analysis and organizational theory. Previously, he was professor, director of studies and then director of teaching and research at the École nationale d’administration publique, where he worked for 25 years. He was awarded the prize for excellence in research. His work on state-owned companies was the subject of his master’s thesis at Université Laval and his doctoral dissertation in political science at Northwestern University. He has published numerous texts on Hydro-Québec and the governance of these public enterprises. He co-edited the Routledge Handbook of State-Owned Enterprises, published in 2020. He is currently working on the balance between public-sector entrepreneurship, public policy, SOE strategy and corporate governance. He is currently co-editing a book on Canada’s provincial states, to be published next year by the University of Toronto Press.

How can we rethink the governance of public energy companies in the 21st century?