 Christian Genest was the first recipient of the CRM-SSC Prize in 1999.He received the SUMMA Research Award from Université Laval the same year.In 2011, the Statistical Society of Canada awarded him its most prestigious distinction, the Gold Medal, "in recognition of his remarkable contributions to multivariate analysis and nonparametric statistics, notably through the development of models and methods of inference for studying stochastic dependence, synthesizing expert judgments and multi-criteria decision making, as well as for his applications thereof in various fields such as insurance, finance, and hydrology."