Dr. Joanne Léveillée has been a member of the Ordre professionnel des urbanistes du Québec (O.U.Q.) and the Canadian Institute of Planners (I.C.U.) since 1993. Her training is multidisciplinary. She holds an undergraduate degree in geography (B.Sc.g.) from the Université de Sherbrooke, a graduate degree (M.Sc.App.A.) and a doctorate (Ph.D.) in planning from the Université de Montréal and another graduate degree (M.Eng.) in international projects and global engineering from the École de technologie supérieure (É.T.S.). She speaks and writes three languages: French, English and Spanish.nFor over thirty years, she has pursued a dual career. First, in private practice with engineering firms, or as a consultant with multidisciplinary teams on national and international projects in transport infrastructure, land use planning and development, the environment and urban planning. She also teaches and researches at the Université de Sherbrooke and the Université du Québec à Montréal. Her main area of research is public transportation. In 2007, the Université de Sherbrooke filed a temporary patent for the development of a tool to aid public transit (bus) planning, mainly using geomatic tools. Ms. Léveillée has also worked in multidisciplinary public health research teams at the Groupe d'études et de recherche en analyse de la décision (G.É.R.A.D. an inter-university research center composed of Université de Montréal, École Polytechnique, UQAM, HEC Montréal and McGill University).nIn 2018, the Conseil interprofessionnel du Québec (C.I.Q.), an exchange forum for Quebec's professional orders, through the Ordre des urbanistes du Québec, recognized Ms. Léveillée's professional contribution to the Order's urban planning and university program evaluation committees, and for her pan-Canadian influence on the Professional Standard Board, by awarding her the Mérite du C.I.Q.
