Camille Limoges (born 31 May 1942, in

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) is the former deputy minister of the Ministry of Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology in

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. Limoges founded the at the

Université de Montréal The Université de Montréal (; UdeM; ) is a French-language public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university's main campus is located in the Côte-des-Neiges neighborhood of Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce on M ...

in 1973. Ten years later, he became the deputy minister of Quebec's newly created . Returning to academia in 1987, this time to the

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, Limoges joined a multi-university team to create the . Thereafter, he went on to found and serve as director of the . He also served from 1989 to 1990 as president of ACFAS (). In 1997, he became president of the (CST). The Government of Quebec integrated a number of proposals developed by the CST into its policy on science and technology, announced in January 2000. Limoges received his PhD from the Sorbonne in 1968, studying under

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. One of his most influential students is historian of biology Jan Sapp. Limoges was appointed a member of the Order of Canada on 16 November 2010, but he resigned from the Order on 26 January 2013, for personal reasons.

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