Montreal, QC | Robert Pouliot is a co-founder of the Coalition for the Protection of Investors, with a life-long interest in investor representation and advocacy.  He has 26 years of experience as a financial consultant specializing in credit, corporate governance and risk ratings.

Mr. Pouliot now serves as the managing partner and board member of FidRisk Investor Services, affiliated with investment consultant Morneau Sobeco.  FidRisk aids pension funds and endowments to assess investment managers and to promote best fiduciary practices.

Before FidRisk, Mr. Pouliot managed the Geneva office of Rating Capital Partners and served as an investment consultant in Europe for 20 years.  He founded and acted as CEO for Capital Intelligence Ltd., the first bank credit rating agency for emerging markets.

Mr. Pouliot has published four books on Canadian and international taxation and an upcoming work about fiduciary risk to be published by Thomson Reuters.  He has degrees from the Universite de Montreal (B.A.) and the University du Quebec a Montreal (Economics), and lectures on fiduciary risk and pension fund governance at UQAM and the College des Administrateurs.

Mr. Pouliot began his career as a financial journalist for La Presse in 1970 and spent the next 12 years reporting from Montreal, the Middle East and Europe.  He has lived in Cyprus, Geneva and Toronto, and is now based in Montreal.