Maude Marquis-Bissonnette
Maude Marquis-Bissonnette | |
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Marquis-Bissonnette in 2024 | |
| 23rd Mayor of Gatineau | |
| Assumed office June 18, 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Daniel Champagne (acting) |
| Leader of Action Gatineau | |
| Assumed office April 10, 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Steve Moran (interim) |
| In office April 25, 2021 – December 22, 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Maxime Pedneaud-Jobin |
| Succeeded by | Steve Moran (interim) |
| Gatineau City Councillor | |
| In office November 14, 2017 – November 7, 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Maxime Tremblay |
| Succeeded by | Bettyna Belizaire |
| Constituency | Plateau District |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1987 or 1988 (age 36–37) |
| Political party | Action Gatineau |
| Spouse | Alex Van Dieren |
| Residence(s) | Gatineau, Quebec, Canada |
| Alma mater | Université de Montréal (BSc) École nationale d'administration publique (MPA) Carleton University (PhD) |
| Occupation | University professor |
Maude Marquis-Bissonnette is a Canadian university professor and politician who is the Mayor of Gatineau, having taken office on June 18, 2024, after being elected in the 2024 Gatineau mayoral by-election. She is the first mayor of modern Gatineau to be elected in a by-election and the first since Guy Lacroix's by-election victory in 1994 following the resignation of Robert Labine.
Before her election as mayor, she served as vice-president of the student association of the Université de Montréal as an undergraduate, and later as a member of the Gatineau City Council.