Nathalie Bernier

Nathalie Bernier is Senior Vice President, Strategic and Business Planning and Chief Financial Officer at the Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments). In this role, she provides leadership to PSP Investments’ Finance and Administration, Strategic and Business Planning, Internal Audit, Taxation, Treasury, and Public Relations and Strategic Communications teams. She is also responsible for the organization’s global expansion.

Ms. Bernier has over 30 years of experience in finance. After more than 15 years with the firm Arthur Andersen, she joined KPMG in 2003 as Partner and Canadian Industry Leader for Technology, Media and Telecommunications. In 2007, she was appointed Managing Partner of KPMG for the Québec region, becoming the first woman in Canada to hold such a position at a professional services firm. Under her leadership, KMPG carried out the 2012 acquisition of Secor, Canada’s largest independent strategy and management consulting firm at the time.

Ms. Bernier serves on the board of the Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal and as Chair of United Way Centraide of Greater Montréal. She has also served on the advisory boards of Finance Montreal, the 12th Metropolis World Congress, Musée Pointe-a-Callière and the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University.

Her career and achievements have been recognized with many awards and honours, including the first position in Business Review Canada’s 2015 ranking of Canada’s Top 10 Women in Business, the Talentueuses “Leadership” Award from the Association of Québec Women in Finance in 2014, and the 2012 Women of Distinction Award in the Business and Professions category from the Women’s Y Foundation of Montréal. In 2010, the Ordre des comptables professionnels agréés du Québec named her a Fellow in recognition of her outstanding dedication and achievements, which have helped raise the profile of her profession.

Ms. Bernier graduated from McGill University with a Bachelor of Commerce (Major in Accounting) and completed the Advanced Management Course at that same university. She has been a certified public accountant since 1988.