Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Richard Giguère has accumulated more than 35 years of experience in the Canadian Armed Forces. Deployed to locations including Germany, Haiti, Kabul, and Kandahar, he also served as a military attaché for three years at the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C. He had the privilege of commanding the 2nd Battalion, Royal 22nd Regiment, and the Citadel of Quebec, the Quebec Sector of the Land Force (now the 2nd Canadian Division) and Joint Task Force (East), and the Canadian Forces College in Toronto, whose mission is to prepare senior military and civilian leaders (both Canadian and foreign) to address complex defense and security challenges. Following his military retirement, he became an expert-in-residence at the Graduate School of International Studies at Laval University, where he teaches, among other things, a multidisciplinary seminar on international security; an associate professor and instructor at the National School of Public Administration (ENAP); and a lecturer at the University of Quebec at Chicoutimi. A regular speaker at the École d’Entrepreneurship de Beauce (EEB), he is also an instructor at the Institute of Diplomacy of the Quebec Ministry of International Relations and La Francophonie. He is a regular lecturer at the École d’Entrepreneurship de Beauce (EEB) and also serves as an instructor at the Institute of Diplomacy of the Quebec Ministry of International Relations and La Francophonie. A graduate of the École interarmées de Défense de Paris (École de guerre), he holds a bachelor’s degree with a specialization in military and strategic studies from the Royal Military College of Saint-Jean and a graduate diploma in strategic studies from the University of Paris XIII (Sorbonne Paris-Nord). He has completed training programs at the Harvard Kennedy School (Senior Executives in National and International Security) and at the United States Joint and Combined Warfighting School in Norfolk, Virginia. As President of the Quebec Military Institute, he served as Honorary Colonel of the Saguenay Regiment, an infantry unit of the Canadian Army Reserve, from 2019 to 2025. In 2017, along with two colleagues, he founded a consulting firm, Ducimus Groupe Conseil, which specializes in developing leadership skills for executives.