Profile: Mr. Bureau is the President and CEO of MBureau International Inc., a management consulting firm specializing in:

• Organizational, community, and international development;
• Strategic advising, positioning, and planning;
• Educational management, learning technologies and distance education.

He is the founding president of Collège des Grands Lacs and a former president of the Canadian Association for Distance Education, now renamed the Canadian Network for Innovation in Education. Since the early 90's, Mr. Bureau has overseen several international development projects. He has been involved with the World Bank as: Chief Technical Advisor for the Education Development project in Lebanon, Evaluator for the Vocational Training Reform project in Tunisia, and Advisor to the African Virtual University. As a team member on an Asian Development Bank project in the Maldives, he was responsible for providing distance education expertise to the country’s Human Capital Development Framework. He provided guidance to UNESCO’s Institute for Information Technologies in Education in Russia. He facilitated Institutes on open and distance learning and development for the Commonwealth of Learning.

An internationally featured consultant, facilitator, speaker, and trainer, he has a passion for improving the quality of life for those he works with. Mr. Bureau is a Genuine ContactTM Co-Owner with extensive experience in making use of Open Space Technology ingredients for organizational transformation and a call to action.