A lawyer by training, Christiane Pelchat has a wide experience in leadership. One of the youngest women elected deputy in the Québec National Assembly, she was also chair of the Québec Council on the Status of Women, General Delegate of Québec in Mexico, and consultant on women’s rights in Haiti and West Africa. Since 2019, she is the CEO of Réseau Environnement, the most important group of environmental experts in Québec.