Adjunct professor HEC Montréal, Strategic Counsel and Corporate Director
LLB, C.Dir.–ASC
Louis Morisset is an adjunct professor, strategic counsel and corporate director with more than 25 years of experience in regulatory affairs and financial markets.
He joined HEC Montréal’s Department of Finance in January 2024. In his role as adjunct professor, he is involved in various aspects of teaching, research and community engagement. He also serves as a guest speaker for various courses and short programs focusing on ethics, compliance, governance and regulatory oversight.
As strategic counsel at Blake, Cassels & Graydon (Blakes), he advises the firm’s clients on complex matters related to financial sector regulation, securities markets, commercial transactions, corporate sustainability, ESG factors, and governance and public policy, as well as high-stakes regulatory and disciplinary issues.
Before joining Blakes, he worked at the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) for 17 years, starting out as Superintendent of Securities Markets before taking on the role of President and Chief Executive Officer, which he occupied from July 2013 to July 2023. During his tenure, he substantially transformed the organization’s culture and contributed significantly to the steady increase of the AMF’s reach and leadership within national and international regulatory forums.
He chaired the Canadian Securities Administrators, the body through which the country’s provincial and territorial securities commissions cooperate, for seven years and represented the AMF on the Board of the International Organization of Securities Commissions for a decade.
Past board appointments include the Institute for Governance of Private and Public Organizations, Finance Montréal and the Collège des administrateurs de sociétés.
Drawing on many years of experience as a regulator and top-level executive, he has a unique perspective on, and knowledge of, the public policy foundations of Quebec’s financial sector and capital markets across Canada, as well as an in-depth understanding of risk management, crisis management and stakeholder relations.
Prior to his appointment to the AMF in 2006, he practised corporate law at Stikeman Elliott for nearly 10 years. While there, he acquired extensive expertise in securities, corporate finance, and mergers and acquisitions in the public and private spheres.
He earned his Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree from the Université de Montréal in 1995 and was called to the Barreau du Québec a year later. He is a graduate of the corporate governance program at the Collège des administrateurs de sociétés at Université Laval and a dually accredited chartered director (C.Dir.–ASC).
