Jacques Lamarre is a Canadian businessman and civil engineer

Civil engineer

A civil engineer is a person who practices civil engineering; the application of planning, designing, constructing, maintaining, and operating infrastructures while protecting the public and environmental health, as well as improving existing infrastructures that have been neglected.Originally, a...

. He became the CEO of SNC-Lavalin

SNC-Lavalin

SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. is a large Canadian engineering firm. It is one of the ten largest engineering firms in the world and is based in Montreal, Quebec. It formed in 1991 from the merger of SNC and the failing Lavalin, another Quebec based engineering firm....

, one of the largest engineering corporations in the world, in 1996 and left his post in 2009. He has earned his Bachelor of Arts degree and a Bachelor of Arts and Science in civil engineering

Civil engineering

Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including works like roads, bridges, canals, dams, and buildings...

 from Université Laval

Université Laval

Laval University is the oldest centre of education in Canada and was the first institution in North America to offer higher education in French...

 in Quebec City

Quebec City

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. He has also attended Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

's Executive Development Program.

In November 1994, he was appointed Executive Vice-President, SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. In May 1996, Jacques Lamarre was named President and Chief Executive Officer

Chief executive officer

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Jaques has an older brother, Bernard Lamarre, who controlled Groupe Lavalin in the early 1990s, and is now the president of the École Polytechnique de Montréal

École Polytechnique de Montréal

The École Polytechnique de Montréal is an engineering school/faculty affiliated with the University of Montreal in Montreal, Canada. It ranks first in Canada for the scope of its engineering research. It is occasionally referred to as Montreal Polytechnic, although in Quebec English its French...

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Jacques Lamarre is a member of the Engineering Institute of Canada

Engineering Institute of Canada

The Engineering Institute of Canada is a federation of twelve engineering societies based in Canada, covering a broad range of engineering branches, and with a history going back to 1887...

, the Association of Consulting Engineers of Canada and l'Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec

On Nov 12 2009, Mr Lamarre was appointed to the Board of Directors of Suncor Energy Inc, Canada's largest energy company.

Starting January 1, 2010, Mr. Lamarre joined the Canadian law firm of Heenan Blaikie as counsel, where he provides strategic counsel to clients on major infrastructure projects and finance.