Marc Girouard

Senior Advisor, Policy Innovation

Marc has over 25 years of experience in ICT working primarily in the Canadian Government where he has developed exhaustive experience in creating and changing policies at both national and international levels.

Meet Marc

Marc participated in World Radiocommunications Conferences since 1997, serving as lead negotiator on Canadian priority agenda items. He has led the Inter-American telecommunication (CITEL) committee preparing countries of the Americas for WRC-07 and WRC-03 as its Chairman and Vice-Chairman, respectively. Since then he has provided leadership in Canadian delegations in ITU, including in meetings of various ITU-R Study Groups and Working Parties, Radiocommunication Assemblies, CPMs, WRCs, and Plenipotentiary Conferences. He also led Canadian delegations to CITEL PCC-II for over 10 years.

Most recently he was Deputy-Head of the Canadian delegation at WRC-15 where he led negotiations to a successful conclusion for the Global Flight Tracking (GFT) agenda item. Similarly, he had managerial Canadian delegation responsibilities at WRC-19 where he led negotiations on the HAPS agenda item.  Through his own company in Canada, Alcance Consulting, Marc provides strategic ICT advisory services to both public and private sector clients.

Team
  • – Policy Innovation
  • – Senior Advisors