Jean-Frédéric Légaré-Tremblay

Jean-Frédéric Légaré-Tremblay located his career at the confluence of journalism and research in international affairs. Born and raised in Quebec City, he now lives in Montréal, where he works for the newspaper Le Devoir and for the bimonthly L’actualité. Previously, Jean-Frédéric worked for the newspaper Le Soleil and for Radio-Canada Television in Quebec City. He was also the director and author of an interview-based book series “Entretiens”, published by Nota Bene for which he interviewed experts on major international issues ranging from the role of Canada in the world to Islam, to the situation in Afghanistan, Mexico, Russia, the United States and demographics. Formerly involved in the public service, he worked as a political adviser to the Minister of Canadian Intergovernmental Affairs and Democratic Institutions Reform in the Government of Québec, and was a Jean-Charles Bonenfant Foundation intern at the Québec National Assembly. Jean-Frédéric also teaches international relations at Université Sherbrooke and is an associate member of the Raoul Dandurand Chair in Strategic and Diplomatic Studies at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and was a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. He received a B.A. in political science from Laval University and an M.A. in International Relations from UQAM. He also studied European institutions at the Université libre de Bruxelles.