Élaine Ayotte

Élaine Ayotte is a Canadian politician and diplomat. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications from the Université du Québec à Montréal in 1987. She then pursued a Master of Arts degree, also in Communications, at McGill University, which she completed in 1990.

Avotte was formerly a Montreal City Councillor for the Marie-Victorin ward in the borough of Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie from 2009 to 2013. She was appointed as Canada's ambassador and permanent delegate to UNESCO on May 4, 2015.

She was first elected in the 2009 municipal election as a member of the Vision Montréal party, However, she left that caucus to sit as an independent councillor on June 4, 2013.

Prior to her political career, Ayotte was a television journalist for TVA and TQS.