Christian Bouchard is full professor at the School of the Environment at Laurentian University (Sudbury, Canada) where his teaching concentrates on sustainable development. Holding a Ph.D. in geography (Université laval, Québec), its research work focusses mainly on the Indian Ocean geopolitics and the Southwest Indian Ocean, with a particular interest for maritime geopolitics and the small island states and territories of the region. He is actually associate editor for the Journal of the Indian Ocean Region (Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group) as well as a member of the editorial boards for the Cahiers de géographie du Québec (Université Laval, Québec) and VertigO – La revue électronique en sciences de l’environnement (Université du Québec à Montréal). He is also funding member of the Indian Ocean Research Group (IORG Inc.).
At Laurentian since 2003, I am actually the Director of the School of the Environment (2020-2023) and the Program Coordinator and Student Advisor for the English program in Environmental Studies (2020-2021). I am also a member of the LU Academic Senate.