| Hélène Laverdière | |
| Office: | Shadow Minister for International Development |
| Leader: | Thomas Mulcair |
| Term Start: | October 22, 2012 |
| Term End: | November 19, 2015 |
| Predecessor: | Romeo Saganash |
| Successor: | Deepak Obhrai |
| Term Start1: | May 26, 2011 |
| Term End1: | October 2, 2011 |
| Predecessor1: | Glen Pearson |
| Successor1: | Jinny Sims |
| Riding3: | Laurier—Sainte-Marie |
| Parliament3: | Canadian |
| Term Start3: | May 2, 2011 |
| Term End3: | September 11, 2019 |
| Predecessor3: | Gilles Duceppe |
| Successor3: | Steven Guilbeault |
| Birth Date: | 13 April 1955 |
| Birth Place: | Chicoutimi, Quebec, Canada |
| Party: | New Democratic Party |
| Spouse: | Germain Bélanger |
| Residence: | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Alma Mater: | University of Bath (PhD) |
| Occupation: | Educator, diplomat, politician |
Hélène Laverdière (pronounced as /fr/; born April 13, 1955) is a Canadian politician. She was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Laurier—Sainte-Marie in the 2011 election as a member of the New Democratic Party (NDP), defeating Bloc Québécois Leader Gilles Duceppe in his riding and retired at the 2019 election.[1]
Laverdière obtained her Ph.D in sociology from the University of Bath, and briefly taught in the sociology department at the Université Laval. She subsequently entered Canada's Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1992, serving in Washington, D.C., Dakar, Senegal and Santiago.
On July 9, 2018, Laverdière announced she would not run for a third term in the 2019 federal election. She told Le Devoir that she was due to turn 64 in 2019, and felt she needed to "pause for a little" and give "new blood" a chance to run.[2]