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Yves BOISVERT

Career path

  • École nationale d'administration publique (ÉNAP): Full professor of ethics and governance (Professor at ÉNAP, since 2002).
  • Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS): Fernand-Dumont Chair Professor: Social Ethics (1998 to 2002).
  • Université de Sherbrooke: Associate Research Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Applied Ethics / Chair in Applied Ethics (since 2004).
  • Visiting professor: Université de Pau et des pays de l'Adour (IAE) (Fall 2012, Fall 2013 and Winter 2015); Université de St-Denis de la Réunion (IAE) (Fall 2011 and Spring 2013); Université Paul-Cézanne Aix-Marseille III (IMPGT) (Winter 2010); Université Montpellier II (IUFM) (Spring 2008).
  • Regular researcher at the Santésih Laboratory, University of Montpellier 1.
  • Regular researcher in ethics and governance at CERGO (ÉNAP).
  • Regular researcher at Laval University's Institute of Applied Ethics.

Diplomas

  • Post-doctorate in ethics, INRS- Culture et société (1997-1998).
  • PhD in political science, Université du Québec à Montréal, political analysis option (1993-1996).

Prizes, distinctions and Coordination or participation in research projects

  • SSHRC grant for the project: Les infrastructures éthiques comme outil de gouvernance: les dimensions éthique et politique de la régulation sociale. Team led by André Lacroix (U. de Sherbrooke) with researchers Boisvert (ÉNAP), Bégin (U. Laval) and Paquin (ÉNAP). Grant of $136,000 for three years (2016-2019).
  • SSHRC grant (partnership development), for the project: Mobilisation des connaissances et réflexivité normative pour la modélisation de meilleures pratiques managériales municipales (under the direction of Gérard Divay). Grant of $197,911 for two years (2015-2017). Professor Boisvert is collaborating with 10 ÉNAP colleagues on this project. He is co-responsible for workstreams related to ethical issues and has conducted empirical research on ethical risks in the municipal environment.
  • With Éric de Léseleuc (INSHEA, Paris), Professor Boisvert is co-directing the establishment of a research collective: Ethical dilemmas and issues in the implementation and management of public policies concerning the integration of people with non-visible disabilities in French and Quebec universities. The start-up of this community was funded by FODAR ($2,500).
  • With Lyse Langlois (Laval), Professor Boisvert is co-directing the research project: ethical risk management in school boards: exploratory study with a school executive association (March 2015 to September 2015). The project is financed ($5,000) by the FQRSC project, soutient aux équipes, for the program: Institutionalisation et intervention en éthique (under the direction of Luc Bégin).
  • FQRSC grant, team support, for the program: Institutionalization and intervention in ethics (under the direction of Luc Bégin). Grant of $25,000 for 4 years, 2014-2018. Professor Boisvert collaborates here with colleagues Luc Bégin (Laval), André Lacroix (Sherbrooke), Lyse Langlois (Laval), Allison Marchildon (Sherbrooke).
  • With colleagues from the Université de Pau (Camille Chamard) and the Université de Sherbrooke (Allison Marchildon), Professor Boisvert is leading the project "Le système régulatoire des AOC : archétype des systèmes de synergie régulatoire et de régulation conjointe". Project funded by a $4872 FIR grant (ENAP) in 2013 and, in 2015 and 2016, by a $5000 FQRSC project, support for teams, for the program: Institutionalization and intervention in ethics (under the direction of Luc Bégin).

Administrative, research and development responsibilities

  • 2013-2017: Member of the Scientific Committee of Management International magazine.
  • 2013-2014: Member of the Scientific Committee for the Colloque AIRMAP 2014 in Aix-en-Provence, May 20 and 21.
  • Since 2012: Member of the Scientific Committee of the International Symposium "Regards croisés sur la transformation de la gestion et des organisations publiques".
  • 2005-2014: Member of the Advisory Board of the Canadian Journal of Political Science (members appointed by the SQSP).
  • 2004-2009: Co-director of the journal éthique publique, Revue internationale d'éthique sociétale et gouvernementale, published by Liber.
  • 2000-2004: Founder and director of the INRS Public Ethics Laboratory.
  • 1999 - 2001: Chairman of the INRS Research Ethics Committee (CER).
  • 1998 to 2004: Founder and director of the journal éthique publique, Revue internationale d'éthique sociétale et gouvernementale, published by Liber.
  • 1998-2002: Member of the Scientific Committee of the Fernand-Dumont Chair.
  • 1997-1999: Board member and editor of the Bulletin de la société québécoise de science politique.

Interactions with the environment

  • Avis-Conseils as an expert for various ministries, commissions, the press, etc.
  • Consulting services and organizational support for various ethical committees on health, transportation, safety, citizenship, etc.

The 5 most representative works

  • BOISVERT, Y., La face cachée des élus: engagement, responsabilité et comportement éthique, Québec, PUQ, March 2009.
  • BOISVERT, Yves (in collaboration) L'institutionnalisation de l'éthique gouvernementale : que reste-t-il de l'éthique, Québec, PUQ, winter 2011.
  • BOISVERT, Y., JUTRAS, M., LEGAULT, G.A., MARCHILDON, A., Petit manuel d'éthique appliquée à la gestion publique, Montréal, Liber, collection éthique publique - hors série, August 2003 (4th edition 2009).
  • LACROIX, A. & BOISVERT, Y., Public markets for sale: ethics and corruption, Montreal, Liber, September 2015.
  • BOISVERT, Yves (ed.), Éthique et gouvernance publique: principes, enjeux et défis, Montréal, Liber, Spring 2011.
  • BOISVERT, Y. (ed.), Les scandales politiques : le regard de l'éthique appliquée, Montréal, Liber, September 2009.

The most representative articles

  • BOISVERT, Y., LESEMANN, F. & PAPINEAU, É. avec coll, Éthique et gouvernance de l'offre de jeux : de la responsabilité ministérielle à la responsabilité sociale de Loto-Québec in Éthique publique magazine, Volume 14, no 2, Fall 2012, pp.199-247.
  • BOISVERT, Y., Éthique et gestion publique : apprendre des scandales, in revue française d'administration publique, no 140, 2011/4, pp. 641-658.
  • JACOB, S. & BOISVERT, Y., To be or not to be a Profession: Pros, Cons and Chalenges for Evaluation, in Evaluation, 2010, vol. 16, 349-369.
  • BOISVERT, Y., Les infrastructures actuelles de l'éthique gouvernementale et la sanction des agents publics, in Revue Pyramides, Bruxelles, Centre d'études et de recherche en administration publique ULB, no 16/2, Spring 2009, pp. 7-31.
  • BOISVERT, Y., Leçon d'éthique publique, in Revue Santé publique, Paris, Société Française de Santé publique, volume 20, 2008.
  • BOISVERT, Y., "L'imaginaire éthique des répondants du réseau gouvernemental québécois en matière d'éthique", in Canadian Journal of Public Administration, no. 47 : 4, 2005, pp. 475-496.