Marie-Éva de Villers
Outstanding Contributor
Member of the Order of Canada (2013)
Chevalière of the Ordre national du Québec (1999)
Biography
As Director of the Quality of Communication Centre (1990–2013), she created and implemented the School’s language policy. For more than 20 years, she managed the team teaching business French, English, Spanish and Chinese, in addition to directing the Presse HEC-Québec Amérique collection. Widely hailed as the author of the Multidictionnaire de la langue française, she devoted her career to promoting the language of Molière in Quebec and throughout the French-speaking world.