Louise Gauthier joined the Autorité des marchés financiers (“AMF”) in 2009 and was appointed to her current position as Senior Director, Distribution Policies in 2014. Her team’s responsibilities include monitoring of professional distribution practices in the areas of insurance, securities, financial planning and mortgage brokerage, and the development of distribution policies in these areas. As appropriate, her department will also intervene to clarify AMF’s expectations with regards to practices considered to be risky from a consumer standpoint.

Ms. Gauthier is currently Chair of the Canadian Insurance Services Regulatory Organizations and Vice Chair of the Mortgage Broker Regulators’ Council of Canada. She and her teams lead or are actively involved in numerous projects undertaken under the purview of the Canadian Insurance Services Regulatory Organizations, the Mortgage Broker Regulators’ Council of Canada, the Canadian Securities Administrators, and the Canadian Council of Insurance Regulators.