Colonel Nicolas Pilon is currently the Director of Land Requirements for the Canadian Army working in the Canadian Army Headquarters in Ottawa.  Colonel Pilon enrolled in the Canadian Armed Forces in 1992 and graduated from Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario in 1996 with a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering.  He completed his Military Engineer officer training in 1997 and throughout his career he has served with the Royal Canadian Engineers field forces for over 9 years, including commanding 2 Combat Engineer Regiment in Petawawa, Ontario from 2012 to 2014.  He has held many staff appointments that include working in the J5 Plans Branch of the Canadian Joint Headquarters in Kingston, in the G3 operations staff in Canadian Army Headquarters, as Chief of Staff of 2 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group and as the Senior Joint Engineer in the Canadian Joint Operations Command in Ottawa. 

Colonel Pilon has also served at the Canadian Forces School of Military Engineers where he was responsible for the training of all Military Engineer officers.  Colonel Pilon has four overseas deployment that include East Timor (1999), Afghanistan (2003 and 2005) and Haiti where he was the Chief of Staff of the Military Forces to the United Nations Stabilization Mission from July 2015 to July 2016.  He is a graduate of the Joint Command and Staff Program from the Canadian Forces College in Toronto.  Colonel Pilon holds a Master’s degree in Defence Studies and is also a licensed Professional Engineer with the province of Ontario.  He is married and has three children.