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Professor Jean-François Gaudreault-Desbiens

Vice-Rector of Strategic Planning & Communications, University of Montreal


Constitutional lawyer; Vice Rector, Strategic Planning and Communications, Professor in the Faculty of Law (Dean from 2015-19 and Canada Research Chair in North American and Comparative Legal and Cultural Identities from 2006-16), University of Montreal; member of the Barreau du Québec and the Law Society of Ontario; Consultative Committee, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Formerly: Professor at McGill University and University of Toronto; elected to the Royal Society of Canada (2015); Executive Committee member, International Association of Constitutional Law (2010-14).

A member of the Programme Advisory Committee, The Canadian Ditchley Foundation.

Canadian Programme Advisory Committee

Participants of the Ditchley Foundation internship programme in 2021

The Ditchley Internship Programme

The Ditchley Internship programme offers over 50 students the opportunity each year to become immersed in the ethos of Ditchley.

Antique chairs and sofas at Ditchley Park

Our Home at Ditchley Park

Ditchley Park is part of the world’s heritage and remains as central to our way of working now as it has ever been. 

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