Monique Bégin PC CC FRSC (March 1, 1936 – September 8, 2023) was a Canadian academic and politician.
Bégin was born in Rome to a Canadian-born sound engineer Joseph Lucien Bégin (1895–1964) and Belgian-born accountant Marie-Louise Vanhavre (1906–1967)[1][2] and raised in France and Portugal before emigrating to Canada at the end of World War II.
[3] In 1967, Bégin became executive secretary of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women, which published its report in 1970.
From 1990 to 1997, she was the University of Ottawa's dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences and continued teaching as a professor emeritus.
From 1993 to 1995, she also served as co-chair of Ontario's Royal Commission on Learning with Gerald Caplan.