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Brigadier-General (Retired) Richard Giguère served for more than 35 years in the Canadian Army. He was deployed to Germany, Haiti, Kabul, and Kandahar, among other locations, and also served for three years as a military attaché at the Embassy of Canada to the United States in Washington. He had the privilege of commanding the 2nd Battalion of the Royal 22e Régiment and the Citadel of Québec, the Quebec Land Force Area, now the 2nd Canadian Division, Joint Task Force East, and the Canadian Forces College in Toronto, whose mission is to prepare senior military and civilian leaders, both Canadian and international, to address complex defence and security challenges.
Following his retirement from the military, he became an expert in residence at the Graduate School of International Studies at Université Laval, where he teaches, among other subjects, a multidisciplinary seminar on international security. He is also an adjunct professor and trainer at the École nationale d’administration publique and a lecturer at Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. A regular speaker at the École d’Entrepreneurship de Beauce, he is also a trainer at the Institute of Diplomacy of Quebec’s Ministry of International Relations and Francophonie.
A graduate of the École interarmées de Défense in Paris, also known as the War College, he holds a bachelor’s degree with a specialization in military and strategic studies from the Royal Military College Saint-Jean, as well as a graduate diploma in strategic studies from Université Paris XIII, Sorbonne Paris-Nord. He also completed executive education programs at the Harvard Kennedy School in Senior Executives in National and International Security and at the United States Joint and Combined Warfighting School in Norfolk, Virginia.
President of the Institut militaire de Québec, he served as honorary colonel of the Saguenay Regiment, a Canadian Army Reserve infantry unit, from 2019 to 2025. In 2017, together with two colleagues, he co-founded a consulting firm, Ducimus Groupe Conseil, specializing in the development of executive leadership capabilities.