Robert J. Giroux retired as President of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada in March 2004. Before joining AUCC in 1995, he was Secretary of the Treasury Board of Canada and Comptroller General of Canada. As a former senior federal official, he held the positions of President of the Public Service Commission of Canada, Deputy Minister of Public Works Canada, and Deputy Minister of National Revenue, Customs and Excise. Mr. Giroux is a member of the Order of Canada, honorary member of the Order of Gatineau and a recipient of the Trudeau Medal from the Faculty of Administration of the University of Ottawa. He has received Honorary Doctorates from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario , the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario, the Université de Montréal, in Montréal, Quebec, McGill University in Montréal, Quebec, Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, the University of Ottawa, in Ottawa, Ontario and the University of Victoria, in Victoria, British Columbia. Mr. Giroux currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Education Centre Network, Katimavik, the University of Victoria, the Canada Foundation for Innovation and Chair of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Council on Learning. He is also a member of the Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation. Since January 2006, he is a part-time member of the Federal Public Service Staffing Tribunal. He has a Bachelor in Commerce and a Masters in Science from the University of Ottawa.