Dr Denis Faubert

Dr Denis Faubert has been appointed president and CEO of the Consortium for Research and Innovation in Aerospace in Quebec (CRIAQ). Faubert was most recently GM of the Hydro-Québec Research Institute (IREQ). Previously he was executive director of R&D Programs at Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) (2005- 2007) and executive director of DRDC Valcartier (1998-2005) where he oversaw research in the areas of optronics, information systems and combat systems. Faubert holds a PhD in laser physics from Laval Univ. He replaces Clément Fortin who held the position from 2010 and left to become a senior advisor to the president of the Skoltech Institute of Science and Technology — a private graduate research university near Moscow established by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology….