Sylvie Guilbert

Sylvie Guilbert

Ms. Guilbert is a full-time Vice-Chairperson of the Canada Industrial Relations Board (CIRB). Prior to her appointment in July 2019, she was the Executive Director and General Counsel of the CIRB after holding the same position at what is now the Federal Public Sector Labour Relations and Employment Board. She is a fluently bilingual Barrister and Solicitor with extensive experience as a lawyer in private practice, as a General Legal Counsel with a federal Crown Corporation, as a tribunal executive and as a Professor of Law with the University of Ottawa’s Telfer School of Management and its Faculty of Common Law.

Ms. Guilbert holds a Bachelor of Social Sciences (Political Science and History) and a Bachelor of Law from the University of Ottawa, and earned a Master of Law from the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. She also studied Law and Political Science at the Université de Nantes in France. She is a member of the Law Society of Ontario and a prior member of the Law Society of British Columbia.