Hon. Nathalie Roy, MNA has been President of the Assemblée nationale du Québec since 2022. A lawyer by training, she obtained her bachelor’s degree in law from the Université de Sherbrooke in 1988 and graduated from the Québec École du Barreau in 1990. From 1990 to 2012, she worked in radio and television journalism. In 2010, she opened a private penal and criminal law practice while continuing to work in television production, before entering politics.

First elected to the Assemblée nationale du Québec on 4 September 2012, as Member for Montarville, under the Coalition Avenir Québec banner, she served as Second Opposition Group Critic for Education, Culture and Communications and the Charter of the French language.

Ms Roy was subsequently re-elected three times as Member for Montarville. During her second term, she served as Caucus Chair and Second Opposition Group Critic for Justice, the Status of Women, Immigration, Integrity and Laicity. On 18 October 2018, she was appointed Minister of Culture and Communications, a position she held for four years. Ms Roy was elected President of the National Assembly on 29 November 2022.

Dr Marilyn Bromberg is an Associate Professor at the University of Western Australia Law School, a practising criminal lawyer and an Advisor at the Butterfly Foundation. She will be a visiting scholar at Harvard University in the United States for part of 2025.

Her main research areas are Body Image Law, Health Law and social media and the law. Her PhD, which she graduated from in 2014, was one of the first in the world on social media and the law. Marilyn is originally from Toronto, Canada and moved to Perth, Australia in 2006.  Some of the venues where Marilyn has spoken include: the Australian Federal Parliament, Harvard University, The Supreme Court of Canada, the Queensland Parliament, the Family Court of Western Australia, the University of Melbourne, the Western Australian Parliament and the Australian National University Law School.