Jean-Louis Roy (born 1 February 1941 in

Normandin, Quebec Normandin is a city located on the west side of Lac Saint-Jean in the Canadian province of Quebec. Normandin is named after the surveyor Joseph-Laurent Normandin. Its history of European-Canadian settlement began in 1878 when the first pioneer ...

) is a Canadian historian, journalist and diplomat. He was editor of ''

Le Devoir ''Le Devoir'' (, "Duty") is a French-language newspaper published in Montreal and distributed in Quebec and throughout Canada. It was founded by journalist and politician Henri Bourassa in 1910. ''Le Devoir'' is one of few independent large-c ...

'' from 1980 to 1986, the government of

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's delegate-general to

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as well as the province's international delegate for francophone affairs from 1986 to 1989, and the first and only

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of the

Agence de coopération culturelle et technique The Agence de coopération culturelle et technique (ACCT, French for ''Agency of cultural and technical cooperation'') was founded in 1970 and was the precursor to what is now the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie. Canadian Jean-Louis ...

from 1989 to 1997 when the organization was succeeded by the Agence intergouvernementale de la Francophonie. He was president of the agency Rights & Democracy from 2002 to 2007. Roy is President of Partenariat International and is a Visiting Researcher at the Centre de recherche en Droit Public de l'

Université de Montréal The Université de Montréal (UdeM; ; translates to University of Montreal) is a French-language public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university's main campus is located in the Côte-des-Neiges neighborhood of Côte-de ...

, and president of the Board of Directors for the Centre de la francophonie des Amériques. He was previously director of the Centre for French-Canadian Studies at

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from 1971 to 1981. The Council of Ministers of the Government of

appointed him President and Chief Executive Officer of

Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec The Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec ( 'National Library and Archives of Quebec') or BAnQ is a Quebec government agency which manages the province's legal deposit system, national archives, and national library. Located at the Gr ...

(BAnQ) on 16 May 2018 in Quebec. He took office on 4 June 2018.

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Secretaries-General of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie Canadian diplomats French Quebecers Canadian newspaper editors Canadian male journalists Historians from Quebec Canadian male non-fiction writers Canadian human rights activists People from Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean 1941 births Living people Université Laval alumni Le Devoir people Officers of the National Order of Quebec {{Canada-academic-bio-stub