NDI Staff: Biographies
Jacques Veilleux
Jacques Veilleux is the resident director for NDI’s Mauritania office, overseeing political party and elections programs there. Before joining the Institute in 2006, Mr. Veilleux. served as a resident delegate of the government of Quebec in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire as well as a resident delegate of the government of Canada in Cotonou, Benin. He also worked in Niger as the resident director of a communications project funded by the World Bank. Previously, Mr. Veilleux was in charge of commercials missions for the government of Quebec in numerous African nations including Algeria, Benin, Burkina-Faso, Gabon, Guinea-Conakry, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal and Togo. Earlier, he worked as a director of Security Guards Service, directed the research office for the Liberal Party and served as a member of the National Assembly of Quebec.
Mr. Veilleux’s extensive career in African politics includes serving as a Canadian observer for the 1999 presidential and 1993 presidential and legislative elections in Niger, the 1997 presidential polls in Mali and the 1990 presidential elections in Côte d’Ivoire. In 1996, he directed the Canadian observers to presidential elections in Benin.
Mr. Veilleux earned his Bachelor of Arts at the University of Sainte Anne in Nova Scotia Canada, and studied law at the universities of Ottawa and Sherbrooke.