Pascal Lavoie

Pascal Lavoie holds a master degree in urban planning from the Institut d’urbanisme de l’Université de Montréal. He currently works as Program Manager, Asia Region, at the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) International. As the main person in charge of the Asia portfolio within the Municipal Partnership Program, his role is to mobilize Canadian municipal expertise to assist the development of local government partners in 3 countries in Asia. This includes capacity building support to 4 association of local governments, and 11 partnership projects between Canadian municipalities and their overseas counterparts. Pascal has lived in Vietnam for 3 years and he has extensive working experience there, as well as in Indonesia, the Philippines and Cambodia, and he has also worked on projects in Laos and Thailand.