As a professional communicator and public engager, Benoît Charlebois has built an exceptionally diversified and international career spanning over 30 years in private, public, governmental and non-governmental organizations—in over seven countries—in the fields of education and public engagement, telecommunications, humanitarian and international development. Prior to joining Philanthropic Foundations Canada, he served as the Director of Alumni Relations & Community Engagement at the Lester B. Pearson United World College of the Pacific (from 2012-2022).

He has held senior management and strategic corporate communications positions with Telus and Bell Canada, as well as the Canadian International Development Agency, the Canadian Red Cross, the Canadian Commission for UNESCO, Canada World Youth and Initiatives of Change Canada. Previously, he had held start-up program management, customer operations and marketing management positions in several overseas telecom start-ups with Telesystem International Wireless—successfully launching cellular telephony operations in Romania, Brazil, France and UK. Earlier in his career,

He worked as Communications Coordinator with United World Colleges International in the UK and Italy—as well as in the field of development support communications with Club 2/3-Oxfam Quebec in Montreal and with Canadian University Services Overseas— as an overseas cooperant in Colombia. For more than three decades, he has served as a strategic advisor to the Nightingale Initiative for Global Health (NIGH).

Benoît is fluent in French, Spanish and English and has conversational capacity in Portuguese and Italian.

Benoît est un professionnel de l’engagement public et de la communication possédant une expérience diversifiée et étendue au sein de multiples industries et secteurs, y compris des organisations tant à but lucratif que non lucratif, privées que publiques, gouvernementales que non-gouvernementales, nationales que globales. Il est un communicateur passionné et un bâtisseur de relations chevronné, compétent en planification stratégique, communication d’entreprise, collecte de fonds, engagement du public, gestion d’événements, publication, production audio-visuelle, traduction et médias sociaux.

Depuis avril dernier, il conseille et soutient FPC en matière de planification stratégique, recrutement et engagement des membres, ainsi qu'en communication, et il serait heureux de vous parler de ces domaines (et tant d’autres) en ce qui concerne PFC et votre propre organisation.