Biography

Manon Jeannotte was appointed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on  December 7^th, 2023 and sworn in as the 30th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec on  January 25^th, 2024, becoming the second woman and the initial First Nations person to hold this position.

Renowned for her ability to build collaborative relationships, she has always taken interpersonal relations to heart.

She approaches her new mandate with humility and equanimity, hoping to give generously of her time by demonstrating compassion and empathy in her dealings with others. As a former chief of the Micmac Nation of Gespeg, she also pays particular attention to the reconciliation of all aboriginal and non-aboriginal peoples.

Manon Jeannotte holds an EMBA from McGill University and HEC Montréal. She is a Certified Corporate Director (CCD) from Université Laval and has also completed a post-graduate microprogramme in interculturalism in Quebec at Université de Sherbrooke.

Prior to her appointment as 30th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec, the Honourable Manon Jeannotte was Director of the First Nations Executive Education at HEC Montréal, which she also co-initiated.

Madame Jeannotte has made her mark with the Micmac Nation of Gespeg, first as a councillor from 2003 to 2008, then from 2011 to 2015, before taking on the role of Chief from 2015 to 2019.

Early in her career, she had the opportunity to write a memoir on the presence of the Mi'gma in the Gaspé region for submission to the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada. She was then recruited through a pan-Canadian competition as an Aboriginal trainee analyst at Statistics Canada.

She has also been actively involved in a number of organisations and has sat on several boards of directors:

• member of the CNC-QC Board of Directors, 2023
• member of the strategic committee of Chemins de transition UDM and Espace pour la vie, 2021-2022
• Member of the Board of Directors of "La Relance Fort Prevel", 2015-2016
• Member of the Board of Directors of Terres en Vues, 2012-2023
• member of the Board of Directors of the first federal Crown corporation, the First Nations Statistical Institute, where she chaired the Human Resources and Policy Committee, 2007-2013
• member of the ad-hoc committee of Art-Culture autochtone de Montréal, 2011-2012 and 2015
• member of Statistics Canada's Aboriginal Advisory Circle, 2001-2002

Manon Jeannotte was named the most outstanding student in the McGill-HEC Montréal EMBA programme by ROB Magazine in 2017.

She also received a certificate of recognition from the Quebec Council of Senior Federal Officials for her contribution to the partnership for the "Commemoration of First Nations and Inuit History in Quebec".