Board members

Jean completed his undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral studies at the University of Ottawa, Université Laval, University of Maine, McGill and Harvard. Over his 35-year career at CEGEP Champlain–St. Lawrence, Jean worked as a counsellor and then as academic dean, retiring as campus director in 2014.

Jean is president of the National Battlefields Commission and is a Senior Advisor at McGill University’s Ingram School of Nursing.  He is also vice chairman of the Central Quebec School Board.

In addition to serving as president of the Jeffery Hale Community Partners, Jean is also president of the Jeffery Hale Foundation and a member of the Citadel Foundation. He is a past member of the Comité provincial pour la prestation des services de santé et services sociaux en langue anglaise (PAC) and of the Commission de l’Éducation en langue anglaise. Jean is a Canadian representative of the Morehead-Cain Scholarship program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a board member of the Université Laval’s Rouge et Or basketball program.

Biography to appear here soon.

Laurent graduated in administrative and accounting from Université Laval. He is a fellow of both the Order of Chartered Professional Accountants and the CBV Institute. For most of his 30-year career, Laurent worked in the fields of audit and business valuation for three CPA firms and was a partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). He also was Director of Financial Services, Buildings and Equipment with the Central Québec School Board.

He is known for being generous with his volunteer time, particularly since his retirement in 2015. He also has a reputation for his humanity and concern for users of the health and social services system. Laurent has served on the board of directors of the Institut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec – Université Laval.  Over those 27 years, he held several positions on that board, including that of administrator, vice president, and president.

Laurent is also on the board of the Citadel Foundation, and a member of the joint audit committee of The Church Society of the Diocese of Quebec. In addition to serving on Jeffery Hale Community Partners’ board, Laurent is also a member of its audit committee and co-chair of our Foundations’ Office investment committee.

Pierre was born and raised in Québec City. He studied at Cégep François-Xavier Garneau and became a physiotherapy technician in 1988 at Saint Brigid’s Home where he learned to speak English. While working at Saint Brigid’s, he completed his bachelor’s degree at Laval University in administration, human resources and gerontology.

In 2002, he joined the Québec provincial government as an administrator at the Société de l’assurance automobile du Québec (SAAQ) and the Ministère de la Justice where he became a courthouse director and later director of human resources until he retired in 2021.

Pierre is pleased to reconnect with Québec City’s English-speaking community which was so welcoming to him when he first started his career. Now living in Beauce and working part-time as a consultant, he serves on a few boards, among which are Saint Brigid’s Home Foundation and Jeffrey Hale Community Partners.

Jacqueline Corbett is a Professor of Management Information Systems in the Faculty of Business Administration at Université Laval. She is director of the Centre for Research on Intelligent Communities (CeRCI) and co-chair of the research group on Industry 4.0, Work and Employment at the International Observatory on the Societal Impacts of AI and Digital Technology (OBVIA).

Jacqueline holds a Ph.D. in Information Systems from Queen’s University, an M.B.A. in Finance from York University and an Honours B.A. from the Ivey Business School at Western University.

Jacqueline began her career as a financial analyst working in corporate finance and cash management. Then, she moved to Fintech where she was involved in developing and implementing risk management and treasury management solutions for corporate and government clients. Since joining academia, Jacqueline has focused on understanding how information technology (IT) can be used to achieve sustainable development objectives.  Her research has been published in top international scientific journals.

Jacqueline serves her communities in various capacities. She is President-elect for SIG Green, a special interest group on IT and environmental sustainability, and was co-chair of the AIS Women’s Network College from 2019-2021. She was elected to the board of trustees of the Congregation of Catholics Speaking the English Language in Quebec in 2019 and joined the board of directors of the Jeffery Hale Community Partners the same year. Jacqueline is a regular volunteer for the Wellness Centre and a blood/plasma donor for Héma-Québec.

Biography to appear here soon.

Richard Walling is the Executive Director of the Jeffery Hale Community Partners, a charitable organization focused on the development of health and social services for the English-speaking minority community in the Quebec City region.

He is President of the Jeffery Hale – Saint Brigid’s Advisory Committee and is Executive Secretary of the Governors of the Jeffery Hale – Saint Brigid’s, a public health and social services establishment in Quebec City which has been serving the minority language community for over 150 years.  He is a member of the Quebec Community Health and Social Services Foundation and co-Chair of the L’équipe de recherche en partenariat sur la diversité culturelle et l’immigration dans la région de Québec.  He is also a member of the regional access committee on English-language services for the Greater Québec City region, as well as past president of the Provincial English language health and social services committee.

He is co-author of “I Dream: The Holland Centre Experience – A Community Development Model for Minorities“.  His work over the past 30 years has focused on improving the health and well-being of English-speaking people across the province of Quebec.

Bob was born and raised in Quebec City. He studied at St. Lawrence College, did his undergraduate studies at the University of Waterloo and his post-graduate studies at Laval. He taught at St. Lawrence for 35 years before retiring in 2011.

In the past, Bob has been president of the teacher’s union at St. Lawrence, chairman of the 150^th Anniversary of the Irish Famine commemoration festivities and member of the board of Irish Heritage Quebec. He has also been a city councillor for the City of Sillery, a board member of VEQ and of the Caisse Desjardins de Sillery-Saint-Louis-de-France, the head of the Trustees of St. Patrick’s Parish, and a member of the Saint Brigid’s Board of Governors.

 In addition to representing Jeffery Hale – Saint Brigid’s Corporation on JH Partners’ board, Bob is currently a member of the Jeffery Hale – Saint Brigid’s Board of Governors and president of the St. Lawrence Alumni Foundation.

He is passionate about promoting healthy lifestyles. This moved him to become the English spokesperson for the Right to Quality Water committee in Sillery that successfully provided Sillery with cleaner and cheaper drinking water from Québec City rather than the St. Lawrence River. In that same period, he was the provincial representative for the English college physical education teachers on the Comité d’action pour la défense de l’éducation physique, which successfully worked to reverse a government decision to remove physical education from the college curriculum.

Biography to appear here soon.