Mr. Charles Brindamour, Chief Executive Officer, Intact Financial Corporation, shared his experience during a 5 to 7 meeting in hybrid format with researchers and business people.
His presentation focused on « The major issues of our society: How we must respond! ».
Invitation-only event
Charles Brindamour is the Chief Executive Officer of Intact Financial Corporation (Intact). Intact is Canada's largest provider of property and casualty insurance products, a global leader in specialty insurance and, along with RSA, a leader in the UK and Ireland. He began his career with Intact in 1992 and has held various positions of increasing responsibility in Canada and abroad with Intact and its former affiliates, including Senior Vice President of Personal Lines, Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Brindamour was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer in January 2008. Under Mr. Brindamour's leadership, the company became an independent, widely held Canadian company in 2009 and two years later purchased AXA Canada, which at the time was the largest acquisition ever made in the Canadian property and casualty insurance industry. In 2017, Mr. Brindamour further strengthened the company's presence in the United States, which acquired OneBeacon Insurance Group, Ltd. In 2021, Mr. Brindamour completed the acquisition of RSA Insurance PLC, Intact's largest acquisition to date, increasing premiums from $12 billion to $20 billion. Mr. Brindamour is an actuarial graduate of Laval University and a member of the Casualty Actuarial Society. In May 2019, he received an honorary doctorate from HEC Montreal. He serves on the boards of Intact Financial Corporation, the Geneva Association, the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, and the Canadian Business Council.
Nathalie de Marcellis-Warin joined CIRANO in 2000 as a postdoctoral researcher and was appointed President and CEO in 2016, after serving as Vice-President from 2008 to 2016. Since 2011, she has led the CIRANO Barometer project on risk perception in Quebec, which annually collects data on Quebecers’ concerns regarding 47 major societal issues. She is also Head of the CIRANO Research Pole on the Socioeconomic Impacts of Digital Intelligence and Principal Investigator of the Innovation and Digital Transformation research theme.
She is a Full Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Industrial Engineering at Polytechnique Montréal, where she also serves as Academic Director of PolyFinances. In addition, she is a Visiting Scientist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and an Associate Researcher at the Institute for Data Valorization (IVADO).
She holds a PhD in Management Science (specializing in risk management and insurance) from the École normale supérieure de Cachan. Her research focuses on risk management and decision-making in contexts of risk and uncertainty, as well as the design and evaluation of public policies. Her work combines economic analysis, cost-benefit analysis, survey data analysis, and more recently, large-scale unstructured data analytics.
In 2008, she founded the RISQH network, a knowledge-sharing and awareness network dedicated to risk management, patient safety, and quality of care in healthcare institutions. She contributed to the development of the Montreal Declaration for a Responsible Development of Artificial Intelligence.
She serves as Scientific Director of the Measurement Tools, Monitoring and Surveys Division at the International Observatory on the Societal Impacts of AI and Digital Technologies (OBVIA). She is also co-founder of the International Francophone Network on Scientific Advice (RFICS).
At CIRANO, she leads and contributes to several large-scale research initiatives, notably the creation of an economic digital twin of the St. Lawrence–Great Lakes region (GVCdtLab), developed in collaboration with the federal government.
She has published numerous scientific articles, several books, and more than 40 reports for government and other organizations. She has delivered over one hundred conferences and is regularly invited to speak in the media.
A corporate director and international consultant, Louise Roy is currently Chair of the Board and a Visiting Fellow at CIRANO.
Louise Roy has held́ senior management positions in the urban transportation, air transportation and communications industries. She waś CEO of the Société de transport de Montréal (1985-1992), Executive Vice President for the Americas of Air France at its Paris headquarters (1994-1997), CEO of Telemedia Communications Inc. (1997-2000) and Executive Vice President of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) (2000-2003).
Since September 2003, Ms. Roy has been a Visiting Fellow at CIRANO and, since 2012, she has chaired the Board of Directors of this Center for Applied Research in Public Policy. She was Chancellor and Chair of the Board of the University of Montreal from 2008 to 2018 and was named Chancellor Emeritus.
During her career, she has also served as a director of Power Financial Corporation and Intact Financial Corporation, the Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD), Montreal International, Provigo Inc, Laurentian Bank of Canada, Videotron Ltd. and Domtar Corporation. She has chaired the Board of the Conseil des arts de Montréal, a cultural granting organization. Ms. Roy is currently a director of the Opéra de Montréal, the Montreal International Music Competition Foundation (MIMC) and the Montreal Airport.