Professor of computer science and Canada Research Chair at the Université de Montréal, Gilles Brassard laid the foundations of quantum cryptography at a time when nobody could have predicted that quantum information science would become a multi-billion dollar industry. He is also among the inventors of quantum teleportation. Fellow of the Royal Society and Officer of the Orders of Canada and Québec, his many awards include the Wolf Prize in Physics, the Micius Quantum Prize and the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Basic Sciences. He has been granted honorary doctorates from ETH Zürich, the University of Ottawa, and USI Lugano.