Maxandre Fortier

Maxandre Fortier is a Foreign Service Officer at Global Affairs Canada, where he serves as Senior Policy Advisor for the OSCE, NATO, and arms control. He was part of the 2025–2026 cohort of the Canada-Asia Young Professionals Program run by the Canada Asia Pacific Foundation, and is a member of RUSI NextGen, the Royal United Services Institute’s network of young professionals in defense, security, and international affairs.

He completed his master’s degree in international relations at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) under the supervision of Justin Massie. His research, funded by SSHRC and the FRQSC, focused on how U.S. allies perceive America’s decline and China’s rise, as well as the strategies they are implementing to address this transformation. His policy briefs on the UK’s Integrated Review and on Taiwan’s loss of diplomatic allies earned him first prize in the Strategic Analysis Network’s competition for the best student publication in 2021 and 2022. In addition to his involvement with the Strategic Analysis Network, Maxandre has, among other things, collaborated with the Center for Studies on Integration and Globalization (CEIM) and the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Diversity and Democracy (CRIDAQ), in addition to working in the Office of the Vice Dean of Research at UQAM’s School of Management Sciences (ESG).