Professor in the Department of Strategy, Social and Environmental Responsibility at ESG UQAM, Corinne Gendron conducts research on the social representations of the economic and political elite, on the evolution of business as a social institution, and on the social acceptability of public decisions and new technologies – notably in mining. She has published 10+ books and 50+ research articles, including in Journal of Cleaner Production, Ecological Economics, and Journal of Business Ethics.In 2014, she was elected at the Académie des Technologies de France, where she co-chairs the Technologies, Economies & Societies cluster, and was elevated to the rank of Chevalier de l’Ordre national de la Légion d’Honneur de France in 2015. She was also made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2019.A graduate of the Université de Montréal’s Faculty of Law and holder of an MBA specializing in marketing and finance from HEC Montréal, she earned a Ph.D. in sociology from UQAM.