Jean-Pierre Girard is an international consultant on collective enterprises, and has been lecturing in this field since the late 1980s at various universities in Quebec and Africa. He has contributed to a number of publications, including a research notebook providing a historical overview of cooperatives in French Canada, distributed at the International Cooperative Alliance congress in Quebec in 1999, and a book on the history of student and school cooperatives in Quebec, published in the Coopération, mutualité et économie sociale collection by Fides.
