Download Board member - Julie Payette

Julie Payette
Independent
Age: 52
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Main areas of expertise:
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Audit / Finance
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Information technology and telecommunications
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Risk management
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Social responsibility
Director since April 2014
Career profile
Since 2013, Julie Payette has been director of the Montréal Science Centre, a museum entirely devoted to science and
technology. She is also Vice-President CSM of the Canada Lands Company, a federal Crown corporation that optimizes the
financial and community value of strategic properties that are no longer required by the Government of Canada. She was
appointed a member of the board of directors of the Canadian Olympic Committee in April 2016. Since 2013, Julie Payette
has also served on the board of directors of First Robotics Québec and Partnership for a Drug Free Canada Inc. Since 2010
she has served on the board of directors of Own the Podium. From 2011 to 2014, she served on the board of directors of
Université Laval’s Collège des administrateurs de sociétés. During her career as an astronaut, Julie Payette was CAPCOM
(Capsule Communicator) at NASA’s Mission Control Center in Houston, has flown two space shuttle missions, and was
Chief Astronaut for the Canadian Space Agency. She was a fellow at the prestigious Woodrow Wilson International Center
for Scholars in Washington, D.C. in 2011 and the scientific authority for Quebec in the United States from 2011 to 2013.
Julie Payette is a member of the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec and the International Academy of Astronautics. She has
obtained an International Baccalaureate from the United World College of the Atlantic, UK, a Bachelor of Electrical
Engineering from McGill University, and a Master of Applied Science from the University of Toronto, and has the ASC
certification from the Collège des administrateurs de sociétés. She is an Officer of the Order of Canada and a Knight of the
Ordre national du Québec.
Role on the Bank’s Board of Directors and its committees
Board member
Member of the Audit Committee(1)
Reporting issuers and public corporations
Director
Roles on boards and committees
(in the past five years)
(as at October 31, 2015)
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Julie Payette was appointed a member of the Audit Committee on April 15, 2015.