[2] Prior to his election to the assembly, Gignac was (for a brief period of time) a senior advisor to the deputy minister of Finance in Ottawa.
On July 29, 2021, the Governor General Mary Simon, under recommendation of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, appointed Gignac as a Québec member of the Senate of Canada.
For five consecutive years, his group ranked among the top three Canadian economist teams in the annual Brendan Wood International survey of some 100 institutional clients.
Since December 2012, Clément Gignac has held the position of Senior Vice-President and Chief Economist at Industrial Alliance.
[citation needed] In 2012, he was asked by the prestigious World Economic Forum to sit as chair on the Global Agenda Council on Competitiveness, and in May 2015, he received the Gloire de l'Escolle medal for exceptional merit from Université Laval.