Recipient of an award for excellence from the Millennium Scholarship Foundation, Yves Plourde has the profile of a man who is actively committed to his community. An undergraduate student in business administration with a specialization in international management at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, this young man seizes every opportunity to put his assets in mutual aid to good use, a sense of commitment and dedication he inherited from his family. Since the beginning of his university studies he has been, among other things, the president of the Club GRH, an administrator of the Mouvement des associations générales étudiantes committee, the host of a student radio program and the representative of his fellow students in the administrative sciences student association. In addition to having participated in the 2004 Jeux du commerce in Sherbrooke as a member of the UQAC debate team, Yves has taken on the role of leader of the delegation representing his university at the 2005 Jeux du commerce which will be held in Rimouski and is in charge of the first UQAC delegation to take part in the Symposium GRH to be held this fall in the Ottawa region.