Bourgon, Stéphane

Quebec, Vaudreuil-Soulanges, Conservative Party of Canada

Stéphane Bourgon is married and the father of three children. He joined the Canadian Armed Forces in 1979 completing a Bachelor’s degree in business administration at le Collège militaire royal de Saint-Jean in 1984. Further to various postings throughout Canada as well as in Germany, he studied law and was called to the bar in 1993. In 1994, Mr. Bourgon founded the Institut québécois de droit humanitaire. This was the starting point for a series of missions abroad (Burundi, Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as other East European countries) as an expert in international humanitarian law. Having completed his Master’s degree in international law in 1995, Mr. Bourgon joined the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in 1998 and was then appointed as Chief of Staff for the President of the Tribunal, a post he held from 1999 to 2001. Mr. Bourgon then returned to the practice of law and has been involved in six cases before the ICTY as Defence Counsel. In 2003, and then again in 2004, Stéphane was elected President of the Defence Counsel Association, which represents more than 200 attorneys. He is actively involved in the university community, is an assiduous speaker on behalf of the International Community of the Red Cross (ICRC) and is a member of several legal and humanitarian organizations. Mr. Bourgon is currently working on his Ph.D at Université de Clermont-Ferrand.

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