31 Notable alumni of
HEC Montreal
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HEC Montreal is 1812th in the world, 640th in North America, and 37th in Canada by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 31 notable alumni from HEC Montreal sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Antoine Arnault
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Antoine Arnault is a French businessman; the vice-chairman and former CEO of Christian Dior SE. He is the oldest son of billionaire and CEO of LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, Bernard Arnault, part of the Arnault Family, which is the second wealthiest in the world.
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François Legault
- Occupations
- international forum participantaccountantpoliticianbusinessperson
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François Legault is a Canadian politician serving as the 32nd premier of Quebec since 2018. A founding member of the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ), he has led the party since it began in 2011. Legault sits as a member of the National Assembly (MNA) for the Lanaudière region riding of L'Assomption. Legault's ongoing tenure of 5 years, 123 days as premier is the ninth-longest in Quebec history and the longest of any Quebec premier since 2012.
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Dominique Anglade
- Occupations
- politicianbusinesspersoninternational forum participant
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Dominique Anglade is a Canadian businesswoman and former politician who served as the leader of the Quebec Liberal Party and Leader of the Opposition of Quebec from May 11, 2020 to December 1, 2022. She has served as a member of the National Assembly of Quebec from 2015 to 2022, representing Saint-Henri–Sainte-Anne. She is the first woman to lead the Quebec Liberal Party, the first black woman to lead a provincial party in Canada (at the federal level, Vivian Barbot was interim leader of the Bloc Québécois in 2011), and the first person of Haitian descent to be a cabinet minister in Canada. She is the daughter of the academic Georges Anglade. She was also the first woman CEO of Montréal International.
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Pauline Marois
- Occupations
- international forum participantpolitician
- Biography
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Pauline Marois is a retired Canadian politician, who served as the 30th premier of Quebec from 2012 to 2014. Marois had been a member of the National Assembly in various ridings since 1981 as a member of the Parti Québécois (PQ), serving as party leader from 2007 to 2014. She is the first female premier of Quebec.
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Jacques Parizeau
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- economistpolitician
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Jacques Parizeau was a Canadian politician and Québécois economist who was a noted Quebec sovereigntist and the 26th premier of Quebec from September 26, 1994, to January 29, 1996.
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Martine Ouellet
- Enrolled in HEC Montreal
- Graduated with Master of Business Administration
- Occupations
- politicianengineer
- Biography
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Martine Ouellet is a Canadian politician who served as leader of the Bloc Québécois from 2017 to 2018. She was the Minister of Natural Resources in the Quebec government from 2012 to 2014.
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Pierre Fitzgibbon
- Occupations
- international forum participantpolitician
- Biography
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Pierre Fitzgibbon is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2018 provincial election. He represents the electoral district of Terrebonne as a member of the Coalition Avenir Québec. He was Minister of Economic Development, Innovation and Export Trade from October 18, 2018 until resigning on June 2, 2021 in the wake of a report by the National Assembly ethics commissioner.
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Pierre Arcand
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Pierre Arcand is a Canadian politician, businessman, announcer and journalist in Quebec, Canada. He was the elected Member of the National Assembly of Quebec (MNA) for the provincial riding of Mont-Royal–Outremont in the Island of Montreal from 2007 to 2022. He represented the Quebec Liberal Party. On October 5, 2018, Arcand was named interim leader, following the resignation of Philippe Couillard after the 2018 Quebec general election.
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Ruba Ghazal
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ruba Ghazal is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2018 provincial election. She represents the electoral district of Mercier as a member of Québec solidaire.
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Stéphane Bédard
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
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Stéphane Bédard is a Canadian lawyer and politician. Bédard was interim leader of the Parti Québécois from 2014 to 2015. He was the Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for the provincial riding of Chicoutimi. He was chosen as interim parliamentary leader by the PQ caucus on April 10, 2014, following the PQ government's defeat in the 2014 general election and the resignation of Pauline Marois and officially became Leader of the Opposition when the legislature resumed on April 23, 2014. He officially became acting leader of the party on June 7, 2014, when Marois' resignation took effect at Parti Québécois Council of Presidents. He held the position until Pierre Karl Péladeau was elected party leader in the Parti Québécois leadership election held on May 15, 2015. He resigned from the legislature and the Parti Québécois on October 22, 2015.
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Hélène Desmarais
- Years
- 1955-.. (age 69)
- Enrolled in HEC Montreal
- Studied in 1979
- Occupations
- international forum participantbusinessperson
- Biography
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Hélène Desmarais is a Canadian businesswoman and is a member of a number of boards and committees in the public and private sectors, including president of the board of directors of HEC Montréal.
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Daniel Paillé
- Occupations
- economistpolitician
- Biography
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Daniel Paillé is a Canadian politician, who represented the riding of Prévost in the National Assembly of Quebec from 1994 to 1996 as a member of the Parti Québécois, and represented the district of Hochelaga in the House of Commons of Canada as a member of the Bloc Québécois. He was elected leader of the Bloc Québécois with 62 percent of the vote on December 11, 2011. Paillé stepped down as leader on December 16, 2013 due to health reasons.
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Oulimata Sarr
- Born in
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Senegal - Biography
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Oulimata Sarr is a Senegalese politician who served as Minister of Economy, Planning and Cooperation of Senegal from September 2022 to October 2023. From 2019 to 2022, she served as Regional Director for UN Women, the United Nations entity mandated for gender equality and empowerment of women, in 24 countries in West and Central Africa.
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Jacques Hébert
- Occupations
- journalistpoliticianessayist
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Jacques Hébert, was a Canadian author, journalist, publisher, Senator and world traveller who visited more than 130 countries.
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Pauline Irène Nguene
- Enrolled in HEC Montreal
- Graduated with Post-Graduate Diploma
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Pauline Irene Nguene is a Cameroonian-born Petroleum Engineer. She is currently the Cameroon Minister of Social Affairs.
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Élaine Zakaïb
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Élaine Zakaïb was a Canadian politician. She was member of the National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Richelieu, first elected in the 2012 election and re-elected in 2014.
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Saul Polo
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Saul Polo is a Canadian politician in Quebec, who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2014 election. He represented the electoral district of Laval-des-Rapides as a member of the Quebec Liberal Party until his defeat in the 2022 Quebec general election.
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Adrien Pouliot
- Occupations
- university teachermathematician
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Adrien Pouliot, was a Canadian mathematician and educator.
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Fatima Beyina-Moussa
- Occupations
- business executive
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Fatima Beyina-Moussa is the chief executive officer of ECAir, the national airline of the Republic of Congo. She was CEO when the airline began in March 2011 and became President of the Association of Airlines of Africa in November 2014.
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Abdourahmane Sarr
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- economistpolitician
- Biography
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Abdourahmane Sarr, in Paris, is a Senegalese economist who is the leader of the Movement for Rebirth, Liberty and Development (MRLD) - Moom sa Bopp, Mënël sa Bopp, a Senegalese social movement created in 2011, and the head of the Center for Local Economic Development Financing (CEFDEL), a think tank founded in 2010.
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Sarah Myriam Mazouz
- Occupations
- judoka
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Sarah Myriam Mazouz, also known as Sarah-Myriam Mazouz, is a Gabonese judoka. She competed in Judo at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the women's 78 kg event, in which she was eliminated in the second round by Natalie Powell.
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Manuel Mathieu
- Occupations
- painter
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Manuel Mathieu is a contemporary visual artist best known as a painter of abstract works that often evoke figurative shapes in nondescript environments. Mathieu draws from Haitian visual cultures and from Western art movements such as expressionism and existentialism. His practice weaves together formal techniques, Haitian contemporary art movements to explore phenomenologies of human relations as they relate to power dynamics, loyalty, love, nature, subjective experience, history writing. His subjects matters start as personal concerns that he embeds into larger collective contexts.
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Jean-Francois Manzoni
- Occupations
- academic
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Jean-François Manzoni is a French and Canadian academic and the President (Dean) and Nestlé Chaired Professor of International Institute for Management Development (IMD), an independent business school with a main campus located in Lausanne, Switzerland and an executive learning center in Singapore.
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Anne-Marie Gélinas
- Occupations
- television producerfilm producer
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Anne-Marie Gélinas is a Montreal-based film, documentary and television producer. She is the president and CEO of EMAfilms, a production company that she founded in 2008.
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Alain Dolium
- Occupations
- politicianbusinessperson
- Biography
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Alain Dolium is a French businessman, politician and a member of the MoDem.
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Sylvain Pagé
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Sylvain Pagé is a Canadian businessman and politician. Pagé is the current Member of National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Labelle in the Laurentians, elected in 2001. He is a member of the Parti Québécois.
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Armando Torres Chibrás
- Born in
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Mexico - Occupations
- conductorwriter
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Armando Torres Chibrás is an orchestra conductor at Pershing Middle School, with extended activities as scholar, lecturer, academic jury, author and arts leader born in Mexico City. He is currently Head of the Orchestral Academy Program of El Sistema-Mexico, an agency of the National Council for Culture and the Arts of Mexico.
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Jean Habel
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jean Habel is a Canadian politician in Quebec, who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2014 election. He represents the electoral district of Sainte-Rose as a member of the Quebec Liberal Party.
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Caroline Codsi
- Occupations
- lecturerbusinessperson
- Biography
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Caroline Codsi is a Canadian businesswoman who is the president and founder of a non-profit organization Women in Governance, created in 2010 to help women access decision-making roles. She is also a board member of Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and Alexa Translations, and has spoken at TEDxMontrealWomen.
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Carolle Brabant
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Canada - Occupations
- executive
- Biography
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Carolle Brabant is the executive director of Telefilm Canada. Brabant was named to the position by Canadian Heritage Minister James Moore in March 2010.
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Djibo Salamatou Gourouza Magagi
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Djibo Salamatou Gourouza Magagi is a government official in Niger.
