Roger Ménard has held the position of Director of the Québec Government Office in Abidjan since September 7, 2021. Within the scope of his duties, he oversees promoting Québec’s interests in several territories, namely Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Liberia.
Mr. Ménard was previously Director General at the Société d’habitation du Québec (SHQ), where he was responsible for managing and developing housing programs, negotiating and implementing Canada-Québec housing agreements and handling international dossiers, including that of the Réseau Habitat et Francophonie where he was a member of the board of directors for several years.
After embarking on his career in 1987 as a professor of economics at the college level, he served as a consultant for a private firm where he was involved in conducting socio-economic studies in West Africa on behalf of the World Bank (Guinea and Guinea-Bissau).
Mr. Ménard joined the Government of Québec in 1989 as an economist. Since then, he has held a number of positions, including Director of Economic and Policy Analysis and Director of Planning and Policy at the Ministère des Relations internationales et de la Francophonie (2007-2015). He also worked for many years in Canadian intergovernmental relations at the SHQ and the Ministère du Conseil exécutif.
He holds a master’s degree in economics from the Université de Montréal and did bachelor’s degree studies at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières and the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.