Angéline Fournier
Angéline Fournier
International Lawyer
President Maeva Investments inc.
Angéline Fournier is an International Lawyer and Negotiator specialized in International Investments & Business matters, is based in Montréal and Paris. Through her work and philanthropy she aims to advance the cause of peace, cooperation and development in the world.
Angéline Fournier is President of Maeva Investments inc (Canada), Director of the International Section of Law&Innovation (Paris), member of the International Bar Association and member of the Bar of Paris.
Mrs Fournier consults and negotiates for investors, businesses and governments in fields such as commercial transactions, business relations, economic development and ADR (dispute prevention and resolution). She has developed a specialization with investors & businesses to and from Canada-France-MENA. Affiliated to the Stitt, Felt, Handy Group (ADR Chambers-Toronto), Angéline Fournier is part of the Negotiation, Mediation and Conflict Resolution Training team, and of the ADR Banking Ombudsman team.
Angéline is President of the International Section of the Board of Directors of IMAQ (a branch of ADR Canada) and a member of the KPMG Arbitrator and Mediator Roster List.
She has co-written a book on negotiation (including negotiating international natural ressources & water) with members of the International Bar Association. Angéline Fournier is regularly invited to participate and speak in conferences.
With Mediterranean partners, Angéline Fournier is co-founder and International Director of ARTS Global, a nonprofit Association based in Paris (with offices in Cairo), aiming at establishing a bridge across boundaries, societies and nations. Its aim is to contribute to a better world and a better life by promoting and fostering harmony, understanding, peace, along with a just and equitable development. She is also Vice-President of the New School of Athens on Global Governance, an international initiative whose mission statement is to explore new and better ways of managing our world.
Angéline holds her Master of Corporate Law from Paris V (France) and a Master of Comparative Law from McGill University (Canada). She has been trained at Harvard Law School (PIL) in Negotiation, Mediation and more generally in ADR (Alternative Dispute Resolution). Angéline Fournier is a Certified Mediator & Negotiator.
Mrs Fournier started her career at the Law Office of SG Archibald in Paris and then continued on to Stikeman, Elliott Law firm in Canada. She has had a diversified practice, mostly in Corporate Law, International Commercial Law and Copyright, law. Prior to developing her practice as a Negotiator and International Consultant, Angéline Fournier worked as Vice-President of the Montreal-based Gamma Institute specialized in prospective and strategic planning & affiliated to Isogroup.
Angéline Fournier has consulted for number of private an public clients. She has also been involved in hostage crisis resolution, has worked with Human Rights Specialist and UN Charter of Human Rights cowriter, late Pr John Humphrey and has been a board member of various non profit organizations like Cedar Crossroad (post-war reconstruction in Lebanon), Free Hostages, Cité Libre Magazine (political and economic debates). Angéline Fournier has written for various publications and written books. Angéline speaks French, English and Spanish. Angéline Fournier conducts her practice in French, English and Spanish.