Chief Sustainability Officer, Desjardins Group

MBA

Gildas Poissonnier is Chief Sustainability Officer at Desjardins Group. He leads a team of experts who support the different business units of the financial cooperative group in moving toward the integration of environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria into decision-making and operations, and in supporting the development of responsible finance products, in line with Desjardins’s commitment to tackling climate change issues and fostering a fair energy transition. By focusing on the long-term socio-economic development of members and communities, he integrates circular economy perspectives and life cycle assessment into his analysis.

Gildas was part of the Disclosure Technical Expert Group for the federal government’s Sustainable Finance Action Council. Today, he is co-chair of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce’s Green and Transition Finance Council. He is also a member of the advisory committee for Quebec’s sustainable finance roadmap, an initiative of the provincial government coordinated by Finance Montréal.

Gildas leads his projects with a strategic vision and is always keen to collaborate with his peers. Before Desjardins, he worked for 11 years at Deloitte, where he led the Sustainability and Climate Change team in Quebec. He holds undergraduate and master’s degrees in agronomy from AgroParisTech and an MBA from HEC Montréal.