Expert in residence at ESEI
Brigadier-general (retired) Richard Giguère is a visiting professor at Université Laval, specializing in international defense and security issues.
With over 35 years of varied experience in the Canadian Army (infantry career with the Royal 22e Régiment), he has worked in operational environments in Canada and abroad (Germany, Oka crisis, Haiti, Kabul, Kandahar), diplomatic (military attaché in Washington) and academic. He has commanded the Second Battalion of the Royal 22e Régiment and the Québec Citadel, Land Force Quebec Area (now the 2nd Canadian Division) and Joint Task Force East, as well as the Canadian Forces College in Toronto, whose mission is to prepare senior military and civilian leaders (Canadian and foreign) to meet complex defense and security challenges. He is a graduate of the École de Guerre de Paris and completed operational training at the Joint and Combined Warfighting School in Norfolk, Virginia. He is a research associate at the Centre international des études de la profession des armes (CIEPA) affiliated with the Collège militaire royal de Saint-Jean.