Chantal Bernier

Chantal Bernier was the interim Privacy Commissioner of Canada from 2013 to 2014. Prior to her position, Bernier joined the Bar of Quebec in 1978 before starting her Canadian government experience in the early 1990s. During the early to late 1990s, she was an advisor for the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada and Department of Justice. She also briefly worked as an operations director for the Privy Council Office in the late 1990s.

In the 2000s, Bernier held assistant deputy minister positrons with Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada and Public Safety Canada. Upon joining the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada in 2008, Bernier started out as an assistant privacy commissioner before holding her interim position. After ending her government tenure in 2014, Bernier became a privacy counsel for Dentons in 2014. she was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012.