Robert Panet-Raymond Chair of the board of directors
Robert Panet-Raymond, who was appointed chair of the Conseil consultatif de régie administrative (Advisory Board) of the Autorité des marchés financiers on January 16, 2020, has been a member of the Advisory Board since December 15, 2017. He is also an associate professor at Polytechnique Montréal.
Further to assent being given on December 8, 2021 to the Act to amend various legislative provisions mainly with respect to the financial sector, which created a board of directors within the AMF and abolished the Conseil consultatif de régie administrative (Advisory Board), Mr. Panet-Raymond exercised the functions of chair of the board of directors for the remainder of his term. He was reappointed on December 13, 2023 for a five-year term.
He is also an associate professor at Polytechnique Montréal.
For close to 15 years prior joining the Advisory Board, he was Senior Vice-President, Commercial Banking, Eastern Canada, at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and, before that, President and CEO of Les Rôtisseries St-Hubert.
Mr. Panet-Raymond is a member of the Institute of Corporate Directors, a former member of the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec and a retired member of the Ordre des administrateurs agréés du Québec. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and the ICD.D designation from the Institute of Corporate Directors. A director emeritus of the University of Montréal, Mr. Panet-Raymond is the chair of the board of directors of the Centre d’éducation physique et des sports de l’Université de Montréal (CEPSUM). He also sits on the boards of three other not-for-profit organizations: the Canada Committee for the House of Canadian Students in Paris, the House of Canadian Students in Paris and the Fondation nationale de la Cité internationale universitaire de Paris.
In June 2024, Mr. Panet-Raymond was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada. This designation is in addition to that of Knight of the Légion d’honneur de France, which was awarded to him in September 2016, as well as that of Knight of the Ordre national du Québec, the highest distinction bestowed by the Government of Québec, which was awarded to him in the spring of 2019.