With an MBA in finance and information systems (McGill) and a BAA in marketing (HEC Montréal), Paul Bourget is the creator of the Bourstad Challenge and has been its pedagogical director since its launch in 1987. He has had a career in college teaching while taking on various coordination and research mandates. Between 2010 and 2014, he piloted a financial education project at Collège de Rosemont that meets the needs of the adult population. He is continuing his teaching career in the Continuing Education Department at Collège de Rosemont. He joined CIRANO in 2015. He is responsible for two financial education projects: the Bourstad simulations and the FinÉcoLab educational games.

Vice President, Business Development and Strategic Partnerships, Croesus

A CIRANO Researcher and Fellow since 2003, Nathalie de Marcellis-Warin has been President and Chief Executive Officer of CIRANO since 2016, has been leading the Baromètre CIRANO project on risk perception in Quebec, which annually collects data on Quebecers' concerns on 47 social issues since 2011, is responsible of the CIRANO Pole on the Socio-economic Impacts of Digital Intelligence and Main Researcher of the theme Innovation and Digital Transformation. Nathalie de Marcellis-Warin is Full Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Industrial Engineering at Polytechnique Montréal. She is also a Visiting Scientist at Harvard T. Chan School of Public Health and an associate researcher at the Institute for Data Valorization (IVADO).

Holding a Ph.D. in Management Science (in risks and insurance management) from École normale supérieure de Cachan, her research interests focus on risk management and decision-making in different risks and uncertainty contexts as well as public policies. Her research combines economic analysis, cost-benefit analysis, survey data analysis, and more recently massive unstructured data analysis.

In 2008 she created the RISQH network to raise awareness and share experiences on risks management, and patient safety and quality of care in health care facilities.

She participated in the creation of the Montreal Declaration for a Responsible Development of AI.

She is also co-PI of the "Monitoring and Surveys" function at the International Observatory on the Societal Impacts of AI and Digital Technology.

She has published numerous scientific articles, several books and more than 30 reports for government and other organizations. She has given more than a hundred conferences and is regularly solicited to speak in the media.

Fanie Dubuc is the Chair of the Bourstad 2022 judging panel

Ms. Dubuc is a senior enforcement councel at the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC). Graduate from Sherbrook University and holder of the Quebec Bar accreditation, Ms. Dubuc was responsible for legal and regulatory affairs at the Ordre des conseillers en ressources humaines agréés and then Counsel to the Court Remedies Directorate at the Société d'assurance automobile du Québec (SAAQ) before joining IIROC in 2015.

General Manager at CFA Montreal

Mr. Jacob is the honorary president of the 2022 Bourstad Challenge.

He was appointed Superintendent, Client Services and Distribution Oversight, Autorité des marchés financiers, in May 2021. With the assistance of over 150 employees, Mr. Jacob supervises the activities of representatives and firms in the insurance of persons, damage insurance, claims adjustment and financial planning sectors. He also administers the eligibility requirements related to and rules governing distribution activities, while overseeing the issuance of representative certificates and the registration of firms.

Chief Information Officer, Investir et Les affaires Plus section, Journal les affaires

Director of Communications and Marketing, Finance Montreal

TD Bank Branch Manager