Stéphane Dion is the diplomat-in-residence in the faculty of arts and science at the Université de Montréal. The former Canadian ambassador to Germany, France and Monaco, he was the prime minister’s special envoy to the European Union and Europe from 2017 to 2025. He was leader of the Opposition and the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada from 2006 to 2008 and served as minister of Foreign Affairs, Environment and Intergovernmental Affairs minister between 1996 and 2017, when he was also the MP for Saint-Laurent.