Richard E. Tremblay is Canada Research Chair in Child Development, professor of Pediatrics/Psychiatry/Psychology, and director of the Research Unit on Children's Psychosocial Maladjustment at the University of Montreal. Since the early 1980s he has been conducting a program of longitudinal and experimental studies, focusing on the physical, cognitive, emotional, and social development of children from conception onward, in order to gain a better understanding of the development and the prevention of antisocial and violent behavior. Director of the Centre of Excellence for Early Child Development, he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and the Molson Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.
Member of the US National Consortium on Violence Research, he is a former member of the US OJJDP Study Group on Very Young Offenders, and of the US National Research Council Panel on Juvenile Crime Prevention, Treatment, and Control.