Pierrick Pugeaud is a lawyer and manager specializing in international law and institutional governance. He holds a master’s degree in international law (LL.M.) and an executive MBA (ESG UQAM and Université Paris-Dauphine). He also completed a master’s degree in law (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne).
He is now Director of SimICAO, which he founded in 2016 in partnership with the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). This week-long event consists of a legal competition on civil aviation decision-making and regulatory processes, as well as a scientific forum on current challenges facing the sector.
Prior to that, he held various leadership and coordination positions in the academic community, including at UQAM, where he was Deputy Director of the Montreal Institute of International Studies, and then Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Political Science and Law. He also acted as Head of Enforcement at the Nunavik Youth Protection Branch. He has also taught public international law and European politics at UQAM and the Université de Montréal.
He is a member of the board of directors of the Société québécoise de droit international (SQDI) and co-founder of Connection internationale de Montréal (CIMtl).