Béatrice Alain is the Executive Director of the Chantier de l’économie sociale, an organisation that brings together actors and partners in the field of social economy to promote and develop collective entrepreneurship.
Ms Alain has a background in economics and political science, and she is particularly interested in enabling collective action in order to accelerate the development of the social economy. From 2011 to 2020, Ms Alain held different functions in national and international organisations. At the Chantier since 2010, she was Director of Partnerships and Development from 2016 to 2018 before becoming Executive Director. During this time, she contributed to positioning the Chantier as a social economy development hub. Amongst other things, she took part in the organisation of the International Forum on Social and Solidarity Economy (2011) and directed the Global Social Economy Forum –GSEF2016, coorganised with the City of Montreal. In addition to her functions at the Chantier, she is also Copresident of the TIESS, an organisation for the liaison and transfer of innovations in social economy, President of the Fiducie du Chantier de l’économie sociale, a patient capital fund dedicated to collective enterprises, a member of the Conseil de l’innovation du Québec and she is involved in different international networks of exchange and promotion in the field of social and solidarity economy.