Event Date: February 28, 2017 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location: FSS 4004, Pavillon des Sciences Sociales. 120, University Pvt.

Presented by CIPS 

The collaborative economy (or sharing economy) is not a fad, but an irreversible social phenomenon. It impacts all spheres of activity: social, economic, and political. It transforms the way markets work, relations between individuals, and, inevitably, the role of governments. Its has the capacity to move us toward a more productive, more sustainable, and more entrepreneurial world. In order to achieve this, it is crucial to draw up new rules for protecting and regulating these practices. The challenge is huge since the barriers we face are no longer technological but cultural and institutional. The world of tomorrow will belong to societies that embrace this phenomenon and conceive a new framework that enables both protection and prosperity.

Guillaume Lavoie is a Montreal City Councillor interested in accountability measures, mobility, bikenomics, the sharing economy, and the role of urban art. Before entering politics, Lavoie worked in public diplomacy, public policy, and international relations, living and working in Canada and abroad and visiting more than 30 countries.

A former lecturer at the National School of Public Administration (ÉNAP), a member of the Raoul-Dandurand Chair, and an international election observer, Lavoie has been a frequent commentator and analyst in the media on international current events and American politics. An innovative social entrepreneur, he is the founder and former executive director of Mission Leadership Québec and the co-founder of the Collège néo-classique.

Fluent in French, English, and Spanish, Lavoie holds a Master’s in international public administration (ÉNAP), a B.A. in industrial relations, and certificates in administration and law (Université Laval). A Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C, Lavoie is also a Fellow of the Forum of Federations, Action Canada, the Jeanne-Sauvé Foundation, and Next City.

As city councillor, he authored and enacted a new generation of city by-laws to permit and regulate the sharing practices of private spaces. A recognized expert on the sharing economy and its impacts on public policy, he has been invited to present before a parliamentary committee at the Quebec National Assembly and give presentations in Canada and at international conferences (Paris, Houston, Seoul). He also just developed Canada’s first lecture on the sharing economy and public policy at the National School of Public Administration.