Corinne Gendron

Professor at the School of Management Sciences and holder of the UQAM Research Chair in Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development (CRSDD) for over 15 years, Corinne Gendron specializes in social and environmental responsibility, innovation and social acceptability, and governance. More specifically, her research focuses on the social representations of economic and political elites, the evolution of the corporation as a social institution, and the dynamics of social acceptability for new technologies and major projects. She authored over ten books and some 50 research articles, including Ecological Modernization and Business Leaders, Ecological Modernization and Business Leaders, Regulation Theory and Sustainable Development and Vous avez dit développement durable?, as well as articles in the Journal of Cleaner Production, Ecological Economics and Journal of Business Ethics. A lawyer with an MBA specializing in marketing and finance, she also holds a PhD in sociology from UQAM, which was awarded the prize for Best Thesis by the Institut de recherche en économie (IRÉC). Throughout her career, she was a guest lecturer at a number of universities and has been a research affiliate professor at ICN since 2012. She has chaired the scientific councils at INERIS and IFSTTAR for several years, and is a member of many others (Engie, I-Site Future, L’Oréal). In Quebec, she has served as an additional member of the Bureau d’audiences publiques sur l’environnement (BAPE) since 2011 and was a member of the Comité de l’Évaluation environnementale stratégique sur les gaz de schiste. Additionally, she serves on the board of directors at UQAM. Ms. Gendron has received numerous awards and distinctions over the course of her career, including the Prix Hommage (2006) and the Prix Carrière en recherche (2016) from UQAM’s School of Management Sciences. In 2014, she was elected Academician of the Académie des technologies de France, where she co-chairs the Technologies, Economy and Societies Node. She was made a Knight of the National Order of the Legion of Honour of France in 2015, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2019.