Aurélie Campana is a full professor in the department of political science, Université Laval. She directs a research team on terrorism and extremism, is a regular member of Quebec Institute for Advanced International Studies and a member of CSI (centre for international security).  Aurélie was the Canada Research Chair on Conflicts and Terrorism from 2007 to 2017.

A professor in the political science department of l’Université Laval, Eric is also scientific director of the Canada Research Chair on Democracy and Parliamentary Institutions. He worked for more than 12 years at l’Assemblée nationale du Québec, and researches mainly on the internal democracy of political parties, activism, parliamentarianism and governance.  Eric has contributed to several edited volumes, including Political Parties in the Digital Age: The Impact of New Technologies in Politics (2015). He holds a PhD in political science from l’Université Lavale and a master’s in public administration from l’École nationale d’administration publique (ENAP).

Jackie Smith is a municipal councillor and head of the Quebec City municipal party Transition Québec. Previously she was host of À nous la terre on CKIA radio, was a business affairs analyst for Levio, and was responsible for business development at the cooperative La Mauve. Active in the environmental politics of Quebec City, she sat on the city’s landfill monitoring committee from 2016 to 2018, and she was a councillor for the borough of Montcalm from 2011 to 2013. She holds a diploma in international development from the University of Guelph and a diploma from the law faculty at l’Université Laval.

Sule Tomkinson is an associate professor in the department of political science and the director of the  Centre d’analyse des politiques publiques at l’Université Laval. She teaches on public policy, public administration, and administrative law. Her research examines how democratic systems deliver administrative justice, how they measure its quality and how they innovate in this area.