Thierry Rodon is a full professor in the Political Science Department at Université Laval and holds The INQ Research Chair in Northern Sustainable Development and was the director of CIÉRA (Inter-University Centre for Indigenous Studies and Research) from 2014 to 2021. He leads MinErAL, an international research project on extractive industries and Indigenous livelihood, including researchers and Indigenous partners in Canada, Australia, New Caledonia, and Fennoscandia. He is also the co-lead for the well-being theme of the project Modern Treaty Implementation Research: Strengthening Our Shared Future. In addition to numerous journal articles, he has published three books, In Partnership with the State in 1998 at PUL, Nested Federalism and Inuit Governance in the Canadian Arctic, UBC Press with Gary Wilson and Peter Alcantara in 2020 and Les apories des politiques autochtones au Canada at Presses de l'université du Québec in 2019. As well, he was the editor of, Teach an Eskimo How to Read…, the biography of Peter Itinuar, Canada's first Inuk MP. He has also provided expertise to the standing committees of the Canadian senate and the house of Commons on indigenous rights and the implementation of the UNDRIP.