Georges Rousseau
Associate Consultant
grousseau (at) cfncon.com
Colonel (retired) Georges Rousseau joined CFN Consultants in September 2008 having served 36 years in the Canadian Forces.
During his distinguished career as an Armoured Officer, he held a variety of command and staff appointments in Canada and abroad. He has commanded at the troop, squadron and unit level. Additionally, he served as Intelligence and Operations Officer (G2/G3) in 4th Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group in Lahr, Germany and Senior Operations Officer for a UN mission in Iraq.
Although Col Rousseau's forte has been operations and training, he has extensive executive level staff experience. In his first tour in NDHQ he served in the VCDS Secretariat as the Senior Land Forces Analyst. After a short pause for command, he returned to served three years as the Director of Armour with direct responsibilities to the Chief of Land Staff in matters pertaining to the Armoured Corps.
Weeks prior to 9/11, Col Rousseau was appointed Director of Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Defense. What initially appeared to be an innocuous appointment turned out to be one of the most challenging and rewarding experience of his career. During his three year tenure, he saw the rapid development, delivery and operational deployment of new NBCD capabilities to the Forces, as well as the stand up of the NBC Company, a unique strategic force multiplier.
His last appointment in the Canadian Forces was as the Defense Attaché to France with cross accreditations to Spain and Portugal.
Col Rousseau is a graduate of the University of Ottawa (Political Science), the Canadian Land Force Staff College Kingston, the All Arms Tactics School Warminster U.K, and the Canadian Command and Staff College (Toronto).