Marie Lamensch is the Global Affairs Director at the Montreal Institute for Global Security. Marie’s research and policy interests are international security and human rights; mass atrocity prevention; gendered disinformation, violent extremism and online hate; emerging technologies, transnational repressions, and digital authoritarianism. She has a Bachelor’s degree in History (Concordia University) and a Master’s degree in Conflict, Security and Development (King’s College London department of War Studies).
Marie is the former Coordinator of Program and Outreach at the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies at Concordia University. She worked as the Assistant to the Director before becoming Project Coordinator in 2016. In this position, she co-managed MIGS’ projects and is in charge of the institute’s communications and dissemination. Marie has also given training courses to diplomats, journalists, and students, and has done several consultancies for NGOs and government agencies. Finally, she regularly gives conferences and media interviews in English and French in Canada and abroad.
Marie writes for Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) and is affiliated to the Observatoire de géopolitique & Observatoire des conflits multidimensionnels at the Chaire Raoul Dandurand. She is also the former president of the Canadian International Council’s Montreal Branch.
