Céline Lévesque has been a professor at the University of Ottawa for more than 25 years and has held the position of Dean of the Faculty of Law, Civil Law Section, from 2014 to 2019. She is an expert in International Economic Law, in particular in International Investment Law. She was a visiting professor at University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and at Xi’an Jiaotong University, in China. She has also given lectures and conferences in a dozen countries. In 2019-2021, she was President of the Canadian Council on International Law.
Professor Lévesque serves as an arbitrator in investor-State cases (as president and co-arbitrator). She has also been appointed to rosters for dispute settlement under the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA), the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the Canadian Free Trade Agreement.
In 2008-2009, Professor Lévesque was a Scholar-in-Residence at the Trade Law Bureau of the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. In that capacity, she participated in NAFTA Chapter 11 proceedings and in bilateral investment treaty negotiations.
Prior to joining the university, Céline worked at the World Bank in Washington, DC, in a group specialized in private participation in infrastructure (1995-1998). She was involved in projects dealing with public-private partnerships in the water and electricity sectors and participated in missions to the Ivory Coast, Guinea (Conakry), Mauritania and Senegal.