Christine Fréchette is the founding president and executive director of the North American Forum on Integration (NAFI), a non-profit group which organizes conferences on economic development, energy security and North American environmental issues. She has also worked at the National Assembly as a counselor for the Parliamentary Confederation of the Americas (COPA), which has established a network of legislative assemblies of the Americas. Later, she coordinated the creation of an inter-American network on linguistic diversity. She has been very active in numerous groups, among them Force Jeunesse, the University Student Federation of Quebec, and the Federation of Women of Quebec. She is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Council on the Status of Women.

Ms. Fréchette holds a bachelor’s degree in administration from the HEC School of Management, Paris, and a master’s degree in international relations from Université Laval.