A CIRANO Researcher since 2020, Josée St-Pierre is Full Professor in the Department of Finance and Economics in the School of Management at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières. She is also director of the Laboratoire de recherche sur la performance des entreprises (LaRePE) and holds the Canada Chair in Performance and Risk Management for SMEs.

Holder of a Ph.D. in Business Administration from Université Laval, her research areas include SME financial management and entrepreneurial finance; business performance and risk and vulnerability factors; innovation and internationalization among SMEs: factors of success and failure; business practices, development strategies and value creation among SMEs; business diagnosis and evaluation; governance and organization of private companies; risk assessment and management of projects and SMEs.