Josée Bellemare

Josée Bellemare has extensive management experience, whose common thread is public service and the sharing of knowledge with citizens. As director of Ville de Gatineau’s Department of Arts, Culture and Letters, she contributed to the development of important cultural infrastructures projects.

Josée Bellemare earned a master’s degree in museum studies at Université du Québec à Montréal in 2020, which concluded with a supervised study of the social role played by museums, and its potential for innovation. Published by the university’s Chaire sur la gouvernance des musées et le droit à la culture (Chair in Museum Governance and the Right to Culture), the work also focuses on the impact measurement approaches of major Canadian and international cultural institutions.

As senior director of ICI Musique, Radio-Canada’s music radio service, she carried out mandates involving heritage enhancement, discoverability of content, and development of broadcasting strategies.

Her career in management was preceded by 15 years in the Radio-Canada newsroom as a research journalist, producer and producer-coordinator. In addition to filing reports from the field in a number of countries, she also had the chance to work as a freelance journalist in Rome, Italy, for three years – an experience, among others, that spurred the development of her interest in the arts and her faith in the extraordinary impact they have on people’s well-being.