Guy Berthiaume is a Knight of the Ordre des Palmes académiques of the French Republic (2006). He received the Dan Chase Award from the Canadian Association of University Research Administrators in 2000, and the medal of the Centre Jacques Cartier in 2007. He acted as a Trudeau Foundation Mentor in 2010-2012, and in November 2012, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Université Jean Monnet (Saint-Étienne, France). In December of the same year, he received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal.