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Flavie Desgagné-Éthier

Climate Change Program Director, Trottier Family Foundation

In her role as Climate Change Program Director, Flavie develops partnerships aiming to support concrete responses to tackle the climate crisis. She seeks innovative solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions within the transportation sector and to support cities in their net-zero trajectory. In addition, her work focuses on initiatives that strengthen the sustainable finance ecosystem […]

British Columbia

Gideon Odionu

PhD Student, University of British Columbia

Gideon Odionu is a PhD student at Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia (UBC). Prior to commencing his doctoral studies at UBC, Gideon obtained his LLM degree from the University of Saskatchewan, where he was also a Graduate Teaching Fellow, Graduate Research Assistant, and Graduate Students’ Representative at the Faculty Council. […]

Ontario

Gigi Dawe

Vice President of Policy & Research, Institute of Corporate Directors

Gigi led the Corporate Oversight and Governance department at Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada (CPA Canada). As such, she oversaw CPA Canada’s development of influential, thought-leading resources and events that improve board performance. Gigi launched the governance discipline at CPA Canada to facilitate enhanced board and executive response to market demands. Her history includes consulting […]

Québec

Gildas Poissonnier

Chief Sustainability Officer, Desjardins Group

Gildas Poissonnier is the Chief Sustainability Officer at Desjardins. He supports the whole financial institution – including banking, lending, P&C and life insurance, and investing – in moving towards its commitment to integrate environmental, social and governance criteria into its decision-making and its operations, and in supporting the development of responsible finance products, in line […]

Alberta

Helen Tooze

Senior Policy Researcher, Canada Climate Law Initiative

Helen Tooze is a Senior Policy Researcher with the Canada Climate Law Initiative through a postdoctoral research fellowship with the University of British Columbia (UBC). She has authored three climate-risk governance guides for directors of Canadian credit unions, major mining firms, and the real estate sector. Helen earned her PhD from UBC’s Peter A. Allard […]

Ontario

Helle Bank Jorgensen

CEO & Founder, Competent Boards Inc.

Helle Bank Jorgensen is a sustainability, climate change, and ESG advisor with close to 30 years of experience helping global companies and investors turn sustainability into strong financial results. She has worked with hundreds of world-leading companies including IKEA, Nike, Shell, Unilever, Novo Nordisk and Vestas. She developed the Competent Boards Certificate Program to help […]