Marie-France Benoit joined Avison Young in 2022 as National Director of Insights. Responsible for developing and implementing the company's market insights strategy across Canada, she is also actively involved in the rollout of the leading-edge market analysis solutions powered by Avison Young’s state-of-the-art AVANT platform. 

Marie-France is building upon two decades in the Commercial Real Estate industry, including 15 years with the Altus Group where she held a variety of roles including business development, advisory and product and data platform management, making her mark delivering insightful market analytics and strategic solutions to the commercial real estate sector. She is recognized in the industry as a specialist in the communication of information on the commercial real estate market in all its forms. 

Marie-France has a Bachelor of Commerce from Concordia University J-Molson School of Business and completed an Executive MBA in Real Estate Studies at Université du Québec à Montréal. She is involved in several industry committees and is an active board member of CREW Montréal.