{"id":16692,"date":"2025-05-15T20:51:52","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T20:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/italchamber.qc.ca\/speakers\/denis-leclerc-canadian-cleantech-alliance\/"},"modified":"2025-05-16T14:32:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T14:32:27","slug":"denis-leclerc-canadian-cleantech-alliance","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/italchamber.qc.ca\/it\/speakers\/denis-leclerc-canadian-cleantech-alliance\/","title":{"rendered":"Denis Leclerc \u2013 Canadian Cleantech Alliance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Since 2009,&nbsp;Denis Leclerc&nbsp;is President and CEO of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecotechquebec.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u00c9cotech Qu\u00e9bec<\/a>, representing the Qu\u00e9bec cleantech cluster. He is also Chairman of Canada Cleantech, and Chairman of the International Cleantech Network, based in Copenhagen (Denmark).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During his 20 years in the natural resources sector, Mr. Leclerc held several senior management positions, namely Vice-President Sustainability and Environment for AbitibiBowater, a global forest products corporation. Mr. Leclerc has been involved of many projects and strategic decisions for companies with operations in Canada, the United-States, Europe and Asia. He has proven experience in issue management, public affairs, sustainable development and in relation with investors, socio-economic players, governments and media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Highly involved in the community, Mr. Leclerc sits on the Board of Directors of Ecofuel, the Qu\u00e9bec Cleantech Accelerator and of COOP Carbone; on the Executive Committee of SWITCH, the Alliance for a Green Economy; on the Community Advisory Board of A\u00e9roports de Montr\u00e9al, and on the Qu\u00e9bec Advisory Committee of the Minister of Sustainable Development, Environment and the Fight against Climate Change. In addition to being a Chartered Director, Mr. Leclerc holds an MBA from the Universit\u00e9 de Sherbrooke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":16689,"template":"","country":[86],"class_list":["post-16692","speaker","type-speaker","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","country-canada-it"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Denis Leclerc \u2013 Canadian Cleantech Alliance - ICCC<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/italchamber.qc.ca\/it\/speakers\/denis-leclerc-canadian-cleantech-alliance\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"it_IT\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Denis Leclerc \u2013 Canadian Cleantech Alliance - ICCC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Since 2009,&nbsp;Denis Leclerc&nbsp;is President and CEO of&nbsp;\u00c9cotech Qu\u00e9bec, representing the Qu\u00e9bec cleantech cluster. 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