Mathieu St-Laurent, External Relations & Membership Coordinator

Email: mathieu.stlaurent@ipsa.org

Mathieu St-Laurent was born in Rimouski, Québec, Canada. He moved to Montréal to study political science at the Université du Québec à Montréal, where he obtained his political science bachelors degree in 2003. In 2006, he completed an international relations master’s degree at the same university.

During the last year of his studies, Mathieu started working for the Société québécoise de science politique (SQSP). Over his three years at the SQSP, he gathered knowledge and experience about the workings of political science associations. As the sole employee, he was at the same time administrator, event coordinator, webmaster, editing assistant, project manager and more. As the events coordinator, he organized three SQSP annual conferences (2006, 2007 & 2008) and the 2nd International Congress of the French Associations of Political Science (Quebec City, 2007).

Mathieu joined IPSA in the Fall of 2008 as the External Relations & Membership Coordinator; he is responsible for all matters regarding membership, liaison with the Research Committees and the national associations. Mathieu is also in charge of the website content, the creation of the monthly Newsletter and all aspects of production of the bulletin Participation.

Mathieu has a marked interest in strategic studies - specially the strategic triangle USA, Russia and China - , defense policies, disarmament and arms control policies, and arms sales. He wrote many articles and opinion letters about missile defense and space security. His master’s degree thesis was about the global dynamics of the United States Missile Defense Plan. Mathieu is passionate about traveling and in his spare time, he practices ice hockey and kickboxing.