Laurence Deschamps-Laporte is the research director of the CÉRIUM (Montreal International Studies Centre) at l’Université de Montréal where is also an assistant professor of political science. Her research focuses on foreign policy, feminism, international relations as well as Middle East politics.
She is currently a visiting fellow at Exeter College and the Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford. Laurence Deschamps-Laporte advised three Canadian foreign ministers including as chief of staff. She was named in 2023 in the top 50 most influential in Canadian foreign policy by the Hill Times.
Previously, she also offered strategic advice to global philanthropic and public sector organizations at McKinsey & Company. She holds a DPhil and MPhil from Oxford where she was a Rhodes scholar. She also holds a BA from UNC-Chapel Hill where she was a Morehead-Cain scholar.
