Primary Job Title Board of Directors Primary Organization 
Business Development Bank of Canada
Gender Male
Jean Martel joined the BDC Board of Directors in 2006 and was reappointed in 2010. Mr. Martel is a Partner at Lavery, the largest regional Quebec-based law firm, where he has been practising since 1999.
He has extensive experience in regulatory policy and the law-making process involving financial institutions and capital markets, as well as
financial law.
From 1995 to 1999, Mr. Martel was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Quebec Securities Commission, then the province’s securities regulator. During this time, he sat on the Technical Committee of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO), an international body promoting regulatory cooperation and financial stability. Prior to that, as Assistant Deputy Minister of Finance for Quebec and Deputy Minister responsible for the financial sector, he had overall responsibility for financial sector policy in the province.
