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A member of the Barreau du Québec since 2001 and of the Ordre des administrateurs agréés du Québec since 2025, Jean-Sébastien Boudreault was President of the Association québécoise des avocats en immigration from 2013 to 2018, Vice‑President of the Montréal Pride Festival from 2008 to 2020, and played an active role within the Canadian Bar Association’s Immigration Law section from 2005 to 2008. Since 2023, he has been the Chair of the Board of Directors of XP_MTL, an organization devoted to the revitalization of downtown Montréal. He was President and CEO of the Association hôtelière du Grand Montréal from November 2021 to February 2024.
Since August 2024, he has served as Executive Director of Corporate and Community Partnerships, Quebec, for the Canadian Cancer Society. After completing a master’s degree in Public International Law at Université de La Réunion (1999), and a law degree at Université Laval (2000), Mr. Boudreault began his legal career in 2002. As an international business and immigration lawyer, he first worked at the Hong Kong office of Mandeville & Associates, and then became manager of their Beijing office in 2003.
With this extensive management experience under his belt, he was mandated to return to Montréal in 2004 to open and manage an office for Mandeville & Associates, and develop the Middle Eastern market. This phase of his career took him to Syria, the United Arab Emirates and Bangladesh, among other countries.
Mr. Boudreault has had the opportunity to share his knowledge of immigration and LGBTQ+ rights at several conferences and seminars. In 2007, he opened his own law firm and conducts interviews for immigrant investors and entrepreneurs in Damascus, Montréal, Hong Kong, Paris and in several cities in Turkey. Since 2015, he has also acted as counsel responsible for client acquisition and case management, and as an immigration consultant for various firms.