Patrick Leblond

Patrick Leblond is the CN–Paul M. Tellier Chair in Business and Public Policy and an associate professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa. He is also a senior fellow at the Centre for Strategic Statecraft (CSS), the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), and the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, as well as a research fellow at CIRANO and an affiliated professor of international business at HEC Montréal.

Dr. Leblond is an expert on economic governance and policy. He has published extensively on financial and monetary integration, banking regulation, international investment, international trade, data governance, and business-government relations. He was a visiting professor at the World Trade Institute (Bern, Switzerland) and the University of Barcelona (IELPO LL.M.) as well as a visiting researcher at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy), the Institute for Research on Public Policy (Montreal, Canada), and the University of Lund (Sweden).

Prior to moving to Ottawa, he taught international business at HEC Montréal and served as director of the Réseau économie internationale (REI) at the centre d’études et de recherches internationales de l’Université de Montréal (CERIUM). Before embarking on his academic career, he worked in accounting and auditing for Ernst & Young as well as in corporate finance and strategy consulting for Arthur Andersen & Co. and SECOR Consulting in Montreal. Leblond holds degrees from Columbia University (PhD), Cambridge University (MPhil), Lund University (MBA), and HEC Montréal (BBA). He is also a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA).