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Maryse Perreault

Chief Executive Officer

Literacy Foundation

 

"We all have our own reasons for going back to school. Often, it’s because we’re looking for a better life and want to achieve our dreams. And school’s still the best way of getting there. That’s true for individuals, and it’s true for a society, like Quebec."		  

© Martine Doucet

 

Maryse Perreault has been with the Literacy Foundation since September 2004. After working as Assistant Director, she became Chief Executive Officer on March 2006.

After completing her degree in history, including courses in translation, Ms Perreault acquired broad experience in the literacy field. Until July 2004, she was a manager in the Quebec education ministry’s grassroots organization programs department. She worked in the adult education field for some 15 years as both a practitioner and a manager. She conducted and co-ordinated literacy training activities, using her skills in organizations whose mission was to promote adult education and its main networks.

Maryse Perreault established her own consulting firm, PROFE, in the corporate basic training field. From 1995 to 2002, PROFE conducted innovative projects and promoted skills development in the employed labour force. She also set up many customized basic training projects in corporate settings in conjunction with the education world. Maryse Perreault thus developed a broad vision of adult education and a thorough knowledge of the networks involved in this issue—grassroots organizations, government, institutions and private enterprise—which represent assets essential to the Literacy Foundation’s outreach.

More recently, she was appointed to the Commission on Adult Education and Continuing Education of the Quebec Superior Council of Education and was invited to join the School Persistence and Success Monitoring Committee, set up by the Ministry of Education, Recreation and Sports (MELS).