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Marie-Chris­tine Ther­rien is a Man­age­ment Pro­fes­sor at the École nationale d’administration publique, and Direc­tor of Cité-ID Liv­ingLab Urban Resilience Gov­er­nance. Her research explores issues of net­work coor­di­na­tion, organ­i­sa­tion­al fail­ure, knowl­edge trans­fer, resilience in organ­i­sa­tions, and cri­sis man­age­ment. Over the year, she has men­tored and super­vised over 20 grad­u­ate stu­dents. Out­side of her aca­d­e­m­ic research, Prof. Ther­rien has worked in part­ner­ship with sev­er­al pub­lic and pri­vate organ­i­sa­tions, such as the Mon­tréal Cen­ter of Resilience, Sci­ence Appli­ca­tion Inter­na­tion­al Cor­po­ra­tion, the Que­bec gov­ern­ment, and the Cana­di­an Red Cross. With­in these expe­ri­ences, she has suc­cess­ful­ly assist­ed the City of Mon­tréal in join­ing the Rock­e­feller Foundation’s 100 resilient cities pro­gram. Through­out her career, she car­ried out sev­er­al man­dates, eval­u­a­tions and analy­ses. She has indeed worked on the Spring 2017 floods in Que­bec, as ana­lyst for the sci­en­tif­ic com­mis­sion on the 1998’s ice storm cri­sis, as well as with the Min­istry of Health, to eval­u­ate their inter­ven­tion fol­low­ing the influen­za pan­dem­ic A(H1N1). She has pub­lished arti­cles in numer­ous jour­nals, such as the Jour­nal of Con­tin­gen­cies and Cri­sis Man­age­ment, Resilience: Inter­na­tion­al Poli­cies, Prac­tices and Dis­cours­es, Inter­na­tion­al Jour­nal of Risk Assess­ment and Man­age­ment, etc. She is the pri­ma­ry author of more than 20 papers and book chap­ters, as well as the edi­tor-in-chef for Inter­na­tion­al Jour­nal of Emer­gency Man­age­ment. Marie-Chris­­tine Ther­rien co-leads delib­er­a­tions of the Inter­na­tion­al Obser­va­to­ry on the Soci­etal Impacts of AI and Dig­i­tal Tech­nol­o­gy (OBVIA), and co-leads the Risk Man­age­ment and Com­mu­ni­ca­tion, Deci­sion Sup­port Tools, Adap­ta­tion and Resilience axes of Québec’s inter sec­to­r­i­al flood net­work (Réseau inon­da­tion Inter­Sec­to­riel du Québec, RIISQ). She is a mem­ber of the Inter­dis­ci­pli­nary Cen­tre for Research into Oper­a­tional­iz­ing Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment (Cen­tre inter­dis­ci­plinaire de recher­che en opéra­tionnal­i­sa­tion du développe­ment durable, CIRODD) and a col­lab­o­ra­tor on the CRE­ATE LEADS project. She is also the co-direc­tor of Col­lab­o­ra­toire Uni-Cité.

A grad­u­ate of ENAP’s doc­tor­al pro­gram, Geneviève Bar­il​’s research focus is the co-pro­duc­tion of pub­lic ser­vices. Since April 2018, she has been co-direc­tor of ENAP’s Cité-ID Liv­ingLab, which con­ducts action research on urban issues iden­ti­fied by stake­hold­ers in order to co-con­struct inno­v­a­tive gov­er­nance prac­tices increas­ing resilience. From 2016 to 2018, Geneviève was direc­tor of the Insti­tut de recher­ché sur l’autodétermination des peu­ples et les indépen­dances nationales (IRAI). A found­ing mem­ber of the Insti­tut du Nou­veau Monde (INM), she held var­i­ous posi­tions there from 2003 to 2016, includ­ing that of act­ing deputy direc­tor gen­er­al. She pre­vi­ous­ly served as Pres­i­dent of the Fédéra­tion étu­di­ante col­lé­giale du Québec (1999−2000) and the Youth Advi­so­ry Com­mit­tee of Emploi-Québec (2002−2004), and was Vice-Pres­i­dent of the Con­seil per­ma­nent de la jeunesse from 2001 to 2004. She has been a mem­ber of many boards of direc­tors, includ­ing the Con­seil du statut de la femme (2012−2016) and the Groupe Femmes, Poli­tique et Démoc­ra­tie (2009−2011). Her research inter­ests include pub­lic par­tic­i­pa­tion, col­lab­o­ra­tive gov­er­nance, co-pro­duc­tion of pub­lic ser­vices, inter­cul­tur­al­ism, fem­i­nism and nation­al­ism. Final­ly, Geneviève Bar­il was the recip­i­ent of a Social Sci­ences and Human­i­ties Research Coun­cil of Cana­da (SSHRC) Scholarship(2007 – 2008), an ENAP Doc­tor­al Excel­lence Schol­ar­ship (2019−2020) and a Doc­tor­al Excel­lence Schol­ar­ship from the Fonds de Recher­ché du Québec — Société et Cul­ture (2020−2024).

Julie-Maude Nor­mandin holds a Master’s of Pub­lic Admin­is­tra­tion and a PhD from the École nationale d’administration publique (ENAP) on the design and imple­men­ta­tion of pub­lic poli­cies in resilience. Her research deals with poli­cies to man­age risk and crises, pub­lic pol­i­cy analy­sis, and the man­age­ment of com­plex prob­lems by pub­lic admin­is­tra­tions. She has pub­lished book chap­ters and sci­en­tif­ic arti­cles in pres­ti­gious jour­nals such as the Jour­nal of Contin­gen­cies and Cri­sis Mana­ge­ment, the Jour­nal of Health Orga­ni­za­tion and Man­age­ment, and the Inter­na­tion­al Jour­nal of Risk Assess­ment and Man­age­ment. Julie-Maude has worked as a lec­tur­er at the ENAP, an advi­sor with the Québec Audi­tor General’s Office and the Gov­ern­ment of Québec, and as a jour­nal­ist with Radio-Cana­da and the news­pa­per Le Nou­vel­liste. She was a par­tic­i­pant in the Par­lia­men­tary intern­ship pro­gram in Canada’s House of Com­mons (2007−2008) and at the munic­i­pal lev­el was a mem­ber of the Mon­tréal Youth Coun­cil (2010−2012). Julie-Maude was award­ed the Social Sci­ence and Human­i­ties Research Council’s Joseph-Armand-Frap­pi­er study bur­sary and Michael-Smith grant for stud­ies abroad, along with the ENAP’s Gérard-Berg­eron prize. Julie-Maude Nor­mandin is an asso­ciate mem­ber of Québec’s inter sec­to­r­i­al flood net­work (RIISQ).»

Johanne Pré­val holds a Mas­ters’ in health­care admin­is­tra­tion from the Uni­ver­sité de Mon­tréal (2008) and a diplo­ma in hos­pi­tal admin­is­tra­tion from the École nationale de San­té publique de Rennes (1998). She has worked as a research pro­fes­sion­al at the Uni­ver­sité de Montréal’s Research Insti­tute on Pub­lic Health (IRSPUM) and cur­rent­ly works in that capac­i­ty with both the École nationale d’administration publique and the Research Cen­tre of the Uni­ver­sité de Mon­tréal Health Cen­tre (CRCHUM). Her main inter­ests are the per­for­mance of health care orga­ni­za­tions, the qual­i­ty and safe­ty of patient care, health sys­tem reform and trans­for­ma­tion, knowl­edge trans­fer, interor­ga­ni­za­tion­al net­works, and the imple­men­ta­tion of healthy pol­i­cy policies.

Joris Arnaud com­plet­ed a bachelor’s degree in polit­i­cal sci­ence at the Uni­ver­sité de Mon­tréal and a master’s in envi­ron­men­tal sci­ence at UQAM. He joined the Cité-ID Liv­ing Lab in August 2018. Joris is inter­est­ed in the analy­sis of polit­i­cal fea­si­bil­i­ty and the com­plex chal­lenges cur­rent­ly fac­ing urban admin­is­tra­tions. With­in the Liv­ing Lab, Joris is work­ing on a num­ber of projects that seek to address this com­plex­i­ty, whether in the con­text of insti­tut­ing flood mit­i­ga­tion strate­gies, increas­ing social cap­i­tal on the ter­ri­to­ry of the City of Mon­tréal, or inte­grat­ing arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence into the pub­lic sec­tor. He is also a research pro­fes­sion­nal at Col­lab­o­ra­toire Uni-Cité.

The recip­i­ent of a BSc in polit­i­cal sci­ence from the Uni­ver­si­dad de los Andes in Bogo­ta, Colom­bia, Gabriela Man­rique Rue­da com­plet­ed her Master’s and PhD stud­ies at the École de Crim­i­nolo­gie of the Uni­ver­sité de Mon­tréal. She is cur­rent­ly a post­doc­tor­al researcher at the Inter­na­tion­al Cen­tre for Com­par­a­tive Crim­i­nol­o­gy (ICCC) and a mem­ber of the project, ​“The art of resilience: How secu­ri­ty pro­fes­sion­als man­age unpre­dictabil­i­ty”, direct­ed by pro­fes­sors Benoît Dupont and Clif­ford Shear­ing. Gabriela’s research focus­es on the resilience of crit­i­cal infra­struc­ture dur­ing nat­ur­al dis­as­ters and cyber-attacks in Cana­da and the USA. She is also inter­est­ed in the expe­ri­ences and back­grounds of the vic­tims of and for­mer com­bat­ants in para­mil­i­tary groups in Colom­bia. She has pub­lished her doc­tor­al work on para­mil­i­taries in both the British Jour­nal of Crim­i­nol­o­gy and The­o­ret­i­cal Crim­i­nol­o­gy. Gabriela pre­vi­ous­ly taught the cours­es Pri­vate Secu­ri­ty and Intro­duc­tion to Qual­i­ta­tive Meth­ods at the École de Criminologie.

Rodrigue Boko holds degrees in phi­los­o­phy from the Félix Houphou­et Boygny Uni­ver­si­ty (Abid­jan-Côte d’Ivoire) and in mar­ket­ing engi­neer­ing from the Hautes Études Com­mer­ciales d’Abidjan La Roche. In Fall 2021, he began work on a Master’s degree at the École nationale d’administration publique (ENAP). His research project focus­es on health crises and resilience, notably in the con­text of COVID-19. Rodrigue is inter­est­ed in issues relat­ed to pub­lic admin­is­tra­tion reforms in Africa, which are frag­ment­ed by a great num­ber of fac­tors. He con­sid­ers that the con­cept of resilience should be more thor­ough­ly embed­ded in pub­lic pol­i­cy in Africa, where the lit­er­a­ture on resilience is weak. Rodrigue joined Cité-ID Liv­ing-Lab in Decem­ber 2021 as a research assistant.

Fol­low­ing com­ple­tion of a bachelor’s degree in inter­na­tion­al rela­tions and inter­na­tion­al law, Butul Moham­mad Ishoq is now a Master’s stu­dent in inter­na­tion­al law at UQAM. She is inter­est­ed in human rights issues, armed con­flicts and inter­na­tion­al law. As part of her Master’s the­sis project, she exam­ines the effec­tive­ness of inter­na­tion­al human­i­tar­i­an law and human rights in the con­text of peace nego­ti­a­tions in Afghanistan. She has under­tak­en field research and doc­u­men­tary research on var­i­ous projects, and joined Cité-ID in 2021 as a research assistant.

Jonas Tchas­sem Pin­lap holds a DESS in Major Risk Man­age­ment from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Que­bec in Mon­tréal, a Master’s in Demog­ra­phy from the Insti­tute of Train­ing and Demo­graph­ic Research (Yaoundé-Cameroon) and a Spe­cial­ized Master’s in Risk and Dis­as­ters from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Liège (Bel­gium). Since the win­ter of 2022, he has been a stu­dent-researcher at ENAP in the doc­tor­al pro­gram in pub­lic admin­is­tra­tion. His top­ics of inter­est are relat­ed to col­lab­o­ra­tive gov­er­nance sur­round­ing urban resilience. He joins the Cité-ID Liv­ingLab team as a research assistant.

Hold­er of a Master’s degree in Gov­er­nance and Pub­lic Action from the Catholic Uni­ver­si­ty of Cen­tral Africa (Yaoundé — Cameroon), Frédéric Takuété Lontsi also holds a Master’s degree in Gov­er­nance and Man­age­ment of Pub­lic Con­tracts in sup­port of the sus­tain­able devel­op­ment of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Turin in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Inter­na­tion­al Train­ing Cen­ter of the Inter­na­tion­al Labor Orga­ni­za­tion, Sci­ences Po – Exper­tise (France). Since the sum­mer of 2022, he has been enrolled as a doc­tor­al stu­dent in pub­lic admin­is­tra­tion at the Nation­al School of Pub­lic Admin­is­tra­tion. Her research inter­ests focus on col­lab­o­ra­tive gov­er­nance in rela­tion to social cap­i­tal and com­mu­ni­ty resilience in the face of crises. He joined the Cité-ID Liv­ingLab team in June 2022 as a research assistant.