In more than thirty years as a teacher, Robert Laliberté has been a leader in offering assistance and leadership to francophone teachers and students.  He has been involved in the founding of a regional and provincial francophone association for mathematics teachers, as well as being on its executive for many years. In addition, he has worked with the Canadian Mathematics Competition, validating the French language versions of the contests.
Robert grew up in Hawkesbury and went to Ecole primaire Christ-Roi and Ecole secondaire de Hawkesbury. He went on to the University of Ottawa and Queen’s University.
His teaching career has kept him in the Ottawa area: Hawkesbury D.H.S., Ecole
secondaire Champlain, Ecole secondaire publique De-La-Salle, Ecole secondaire publique Charlebois, and Ecole secondaire publique Louis-Riel. For more than 25 years he has acted as head of different mathematics departments and has been the Co-coordinator of Programming for gifted students in Ottawa. Robert has also taught in the Faculty of Education at the University of Ottawa.
Cross-country skiing, racquetball, tennis, canoeing and travelling are favourite extracurricular activities for Robert.