Marcel Côté

Marcel Côté is a founding partner of SECOR Consulting. Over his 35-year career as a senior consultant, he has specialized in strategy consulting for management throughout Canada and in France. Mr. Côté holds an M.Sc. in Economics from Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) and is a Fellow of the Center for International Affairs, Harvard University. As an economist, he specializes in technological and regional development, a subject on which he is a keynote speaker and has written three books.

Mr. Côté is also known for his work on economic growth policies, a subject on which he has written several books. Over the course of his career Mr. Côté has also advised both levels of government. From 1986 to 1988, he was economic advisor to the prime minister of Quebec. In 1989 and 1990, he was Director of Strategic planning and communications in the Prime Minister’s Office in Ottawa.

Before co-founding SECOR in 1975, he taught at the Université de Sherbrooke and the Université du Québec à Montréal. He sits on the Board of Directors of ING Canada, Empire Ltd., Osisko Mining Corporation, and NeuroScience Canada. Mr. Côté is active in community organizations, particularly he Chairs the Montréal Community Foundation, participates in Compagnie de danse Marie Chouinard and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. He is a former Chair of the Public Policy Forum.