 Among others, he was director of the "Institut des sciences mathématiques du Québec" (2012–15), president of the Statistical Society of Canada (2007–08) and president of the Association des statisticiennes et statisticiens du Québec (2005–08).He served on Statistics Canada's Advisory Committee on Statistical Methods for several years, and on the editorial board of various peer-review journals, including "The Canadian Journal of Statistics" (1988–2003), the "Journal de la Société française de statistique" (1999–2008) and the "Journal of Multivariate Analysis" (2003–2015).He was also editor in chief of "The Canadian Journal of Statistics" (1998–2000) and guest editor for various books and special issues, including two for "Insurance