Officer of the Order of Canada
Awarded on: 2018-11-19
Invested on: 2019-07-04
Richard Ernest Tremblay, O.C., O.Q.
Montréal, Quebec
Richard Ernest Tremblay has been at the forefront of developmental psychology, child psychiatry and criminology for many decades. Professor emeritus at l'Université de Montréal and University College Dublin, he studied the physical, cognitive, emotional and social development of more than 30 000 children to understand and prevent behaviour problems. His longitudinal and experimental studies have specifically transformed, in Canada and abroad, our understanding of the development and prevention of physical violence.