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Yves Boisvert

Career history

  • National School of Public Administration (ÉNAP): Full professor of ethics and governance (Professor at ÉNAP since 2002).
  • National Institute for Scientific Research (INRS): Professor at the Fernand-Dumont Chair: Social Ethics (1998 to 2002).
  • University of Sherbrooke: Associate Professor-Researcher in the Department of Philosophy and Applied Ethics / Chair of Applied Ethics (since 2004).
  • Visiting professor: University of Pau and Pays de l'Adour (IAE) (Fall 2012, Fall 2013, and Winter 2015); University of St-Denis de la Réunion (IAE) (Fall 2011 and Spring 2013); Paul-Cézanne Aix-Marseille III University (IMPGT) (Winter 2010); Montpellier II University (IUFM) (Spring 2008).
  • Regular researcher at the Santésih Laboratory at the University of Montpellier 1.
  • Regular researcher in ethics and governance at CERGO (ÉNAP).
  • Regular researcher at the Institute of Applied Ethics at Laval University.

Degrees

  • Postdoctoral fellowship in ethics, INRS-Culture and Society (1997-1998).
  • PhD Political Science, University of Quebec in Montreal, specializing in political analysis (1993-1996).

Awards, distinctions, and coordination or participation in research projects

  • SSHRC grant for the project: Ethical infrastructures as a governance tool: the ethical and political dimensions of social regulation. Team led by André Lacroix (University of Sherbrooke) with researchers Boisvert (ÉNAP), Bégin (Laval University), and Paquin (ÉNAP). Grant of $136,000 for three years (2016–2019).
  • SSHRC grant (partnership development) for the project: Knowledge mobilization and normative reflexivity for modeling best municipal management practices (led by Gérard Divay). Grant of $197,911 for two years (2015–2017). Professor Boisvert is collaborating with 10 colleagues from ÉNAP on this project. He is co-responsible for projects related to ethical issues and has conducted empirical research on ethical risks in municipal settings.
  • Together with Éric de Léseleuc (INSHEA, Paris), Professor Boisvert is co-directing the establishment of a research group: Ethical dilemmas and issues in the implementation and management of public policies concerning the integration of people with invisible disabilities in French and Quebec universities. The launch of this community was funded by FODAR ($2,500).
  • Together with Lyse Langlois (Laval), Professor Boisvert is co-directing the research project: Ethical Risk Management in School Boards: An Exploratory Study with a School Administrators' Association (March 2015 to September 2015). The project is funded ($5,000) by the FQRSC project, team support, for programming: Institutionalization and intervention in ethics (under the direction of Luc Bégin).
  • FQRSC grant, team support, for programming: Institutionalization and intervention in ethics (under the direction of Luc Bégin). Grant of $252,000 for four years, from 2014 to 2018. Professor Boisvert is collaborating here with his colleagues Luc Bégin (Laval), André Lacroix (Sherbrooke), Lyse Langlois (Laval), and Allison Marchildon (Sherbrooke).
  • Together with his colleagues at the University of Pau (Camille Chamard) and the University of Sherbrooke (Allison Marchildon), Professor Boisvert is leading the project "The AOC regulatory system: archetype of regulatory synergy and joint regulation systems." The project was funded by a $4,872 FIR (ENAP) grant in 2013 and, in 2015 and 2016, by a $5,000 FQRSC grant to support teams for the program: Institutionalization and Intervention in Ethics (under the direction of Luc Bégin).

Administrative responsibilities, research, and promotion

  • 2013-2017: Member of the Scientific Committee of the journal Management International.
  • 2013-2014: Member of the Scientific Committee of the AIRMAP 2014 Conference in Aix-en-Provence, May 20 and 21.
  • Since 2012: Member of the Scientific Committee of the International Symposium "Different Perspectives on the Transformation of Public Management and Organizations."
  • 2005-2014: Member of the Advisory Board of the Canadian Journal of Political Science (members appointed by the SQSP).
  • 2004-2009: Co-editor of the public ethics journal Revue internationale d’éthique sociétale et gouvernementale, published by Liber.
  • 2000-2004: Founder and Director of the INRS Public Ethics Laboratory.
  • 1999–2001: Chair of the INRS Research Ethics Committee (CER).
  • 1998 to 2004: Founder and editor of the public ethics journal, Revue internationale d’éthique sociétale et gouvernementale (International Journal of Societal and Governmental Ethics), published by Liber.
  • 1998-2002: Member of the scientific committee of the Fernand Dumont Chair.
  • 1997-1999: Member of the Board of Directors and editor of the Bulletin of the Quebec Political Science Association.

Interactions with the environment

  • Advisory services as an expert in various ministries, commissions, press, etc.
  • Consulting services and organizational support for various ethics committees in the areas of health, transportation, safety, citizenship, etc.

The 5 most representative works

  • BOISVERT, Y., The Hidden Side of Elected Officials: Commitment, Responsibility, and Ethical Behavior, Quebec City, PUQ, March 2009.
  • BOISVERT, Yves (in collaboration) The Institutionalization of Government Ethics: What Remains of Ethics?, Quebec City, PUQ, Winter 2011.
  • BOISVERT, Y., JUTRAS, M., LEGAULT, G.A., MARCHILDON, A., Petit manuel d’éthique appliquée à la gestion publique (A Short Handbook on Ethics Applied to Public Management), Montreal, Liber, public ethics collection – special edition, August 2003 (4th edition 2009).
  • LACROIX, A. & BOISVERT, Y., Public contracts for sale: ethics and corruption, Montreal, Liber, September 2015.
  • BOISVERT, Yves (ed.), Ethics and Public Governance: Principles, Issues, and Challenges, Montreal, Liber, Spring 2011.
  • BOISVERT, Y. (ed.), Les scandales politiques : le regard de l’éthique appliquée (Political scandals: a view from applied ethics), Montreal, Liber, September 2009.

The most representative articles

  • BOISVERT, Y., LESEMANN, F., & PAPINEAU, É., et al., Ethics and governance of gaming: from ministerial responsibility to social responsibility at Loto-Québec, in Éthique publique, Volume 14, No. 2, Fall 2012, pp. 199–247.
  • BOISVERT, Y., Ethics and public management: learning from scandals, 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 Challenges for Evaluation, in Evaluation, 2010, vol. 16, 349-369.
  • BOISVERT, Y., Current infrastructures for government ethics and the sanctioning of public officials, in Revue Pyramides, Brussels, Center for Studies and Research in Public Administration ULB, no. 16/2, Spring 2009, pp. 7-31.
  • BOISVERT, Y., Lesson in Public Ethics, in Public Health Review, Paris, French Public Health Society, volume 20, 2008.
  • BOISVERT, Y., "The ethical imagination of respondents from the Quebec government network on ethics," in the Canadian Journal of Public Administration, no. 47: 4, 2005, pp. 475-496.