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Youth Organizations
The Manifesto was written by and in consultation with 65 youth organizations, from entire business student societies to registered not-profits, which include over 1,000 young leaders from 18 years old to 35 years old and who are involved in issues from climate finance to Indigenous leadership.
Civil Society Organizations
100 civil society organizations recognizing the need for change in business education.
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Executive Leaders
130 of Canada’s most influential executive leaders in sustainability recognizing the need for change in business education signing on their own behalf and not on behalf of their organization.
Aaron Lambie, President / CEO, Social Awareness Group Inc.
Adam Spence, CEO and Director, SVX
Akhil Sivanandan, Co-Founder, Green Story
Anne-Josée Laquerre, President & Co-founder, Québec net Positif
Ariane Renaud-Brule, Ange Financier, Comité organisateur du Groupe d'intérêt Investissement Impact Anges Québec
Beatrice Alain, Directrice générale, Chantier de l'économie sociale
Bob Willard, Founder and Chief Sustainability Champion
Brian Smith, Chief Executive Officer, Rhiza Capital
Butch Bacani, Programme Leader, UN Environment Programme's Principles for Sustainable Insurance Initiative (PSI)
Carolina Gallo, Chairperson, Canadian Urban Transportation Research Innovation Consortium
Catherine Bérubé, Vice-President, Sustainability, Investor Relations and Public Affairs, Cycle Capital
Chandra Ramadurai, CEO, Efficiency Capital
Chantale Despres, Director - Sustainability, CN
Chris Erickson, Partner, Pangaea Ventures
Christophe Goffoz, Co-Leader du Groupe d'intérêt Investissement Impact
Coro Strandberg, President, Strandberg Consulting
Dana Stephenson, Co-Founder, CEO Riipen
David O'Leary, Founder & Principal, Kind Wealth
David Upton, CEO, Common Good Solutions CIC
Drummond Lawson, Chief of Staff, Arc'teryx Equipment, Inc.
Elizabeth Alves, VP Enterprise Strategy & Social Responsibility, Cogeco
Elizabeth Sheehan, Co-founder, Climate Smart Businesses Inc.
Erica Barbosa Vargas, Global Head, Sustainable Finance & Innovation, SecondMuse Capital
Esther Domagen, President, Ellio, sustainable strategies
Frédéric Krikorian, Vice-président, Développement durable, affaires publiques et gouvernementales
Geoff Moore, Founder and CEO, Impact AND
Guy Lefebvre, Directeur - Conformité et développement durable, Hydro-Québec
Heather Mak, Principal Advisor/Co-Founder, Heather Mak Consulting / Diversity in Sustainability
Jamie Miller, President, Biomimicry Frontiers
Jean-Francois Barsoum, Senior Innovation Executive, IBM
Jeanette Jackson, CEO, Foresight Cleantech Accelerator Centre
Jennifer Clipsham, Director and Practice Leader, Advisory and Communications, Anthesis Group
Jessica Pelchat, National Director, Kin&Co
Jo Flatt, VP, Corporate Planning & Sustainability, Allied REIT
Joel Solomon, Co-Founder, Renewal Funds
Jonathan Hera, CEO, Managing Partner, Marigold Capital
Julie Gelfand, Former Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development, Retired
Karel Mayrand, Fondation du Grand Montréal
Kate Chisholm, SVP, Planning, Strategy & Chief Sustainability Officer, Capital Power Corporation
Kenny Tang, Chief Compliance Officer & ESG Leader / Chef de la conformité et des pratiques ESG, Trans-Canada Capital Inc.
Lauren Dobell, Executive Director, Table of Impact Investment Practitioners
Loïc Angot, Associate, Practice Leader Sustainability, Lemay
Magali Depras, Chef de la Stratégie, Transcontinental Inc
Martin Vaillancourt, Directeur général, Regroupement national des conseils régionaux de l'environnement du Québec
Michael Smith, President and Chief Impact Officer, IMPACT BRIDGE
Mihaela Stefanov, Senior Manager, Sustainability and Climate Change, EY
Mike Gerbis, CEO, GLOBE/The Delphi Group
Mike Winterfield, Managing Partner, Active Impact Investments
Nancy Blair, Chief Transformation Officer, MEC (former)
Neil Pegram, VP of Capital Markets, Measurabl
Noémie Varin-Lachapelle, Directrice de l'environnement, Sollio Grouep Coopératif
Odrey Robillard, Conseillère principale, Développement durable et investissement responsable, Fonds de solidarité FTQ
Olta Cibuku, Head of ESG, AMP
Paul MacLean, President and Founder, EEM Environmental & Social Impact Ltd.
Phil Cull, NatureBank Asset Management, NatureBank Asset Management
Phillip Haid, Founder and CEO, Public Inc.
Rosalie Vendette, Experte en finance durable, Décode ESG
Shilpa Tiwari, Founder, Her Climb
Stephanie McLarty, CEO, REfficient Inc.
Subhi Alan Alsayed, Founder and Managing Partner, Elements Ventures Accelerator [EVA]
Tamara Close, Managing Director & Head of ESG Integration, KKS Advisors
Tom Rand, Managing Partner, ArcTern Ventures
Tonya Surman, CEO, Centre for Social Innovation
Vicki Saunders, Founder, SheEO
Wesley Gee, Director, Sustainability, The Works Design Communications Ltd
Yann Pezzini, Head of Practice, Social Impact Strategy, Credo
Adam Jagelewski, Managing Partner, TwinRiver Capital Group
Aisha Bukhari, Vice President, Women in Renewable Energy
Alexandra Baillie, President, Good & Well
Anne-Marie Saulnier, Executive Director, ECPAR
Audrey M Mascarenhas, President and CEO, Questor Technology Inc.
Beatrice Olivastri, Chief Executive Officer, Friends of the Earth Canada
Bradley Pilgrim, CEO, Parity Inc
Bruce Taylor, President, Enviro-Stewards Inc.
Carol Anne Hilton, CEO, Indigenomics Institute
Carrie Sabin, VP, Corporate Sustainability, Stantec
Cedric B. Robert, Founder and Executive Officer, Clearsum
Chantal Thieblin Goffoz, Membre du comité de gestion, Groupe d'intérêt investissement Impact Anges Québec
Charles Duchesne, CEO, COESIO
Chris Henderson, President, Lumos Energy & Indigenous Clean Energy
Claudia Vemo, Director, Catastrophic Risk and Climate Policy, Insurance Bureau of Canada
Craig Ryan, Director, Purpose Entrepreneurship & ESG, BDC
David LePage, Managing Partner, Buy Social Canada
David Roy, Communication Director, Metrio
Don Huff, President, ECO Strategy
Eden Yesh, Chair, President, British Columbia Community Impact Investment Coalition, Columbia Institute for Renewable Energy Society
Elizabeth Castrillon Jimenez, Director Advisory Services, Social Impact, impakt
Eric Wan, Director, GlobeScan
Erica Coulombe, Vice President, Millani
Francisca Quinn, President and CEO, Quinn & Partners Inc.
Geneviève Morin, Présidente-directrice générale, Fondaction
Guy Gervais, Leader Groupe d'intéret investissement d'impact, Groupe d'intérêt investissement d'impact - Anges Québec
Hanbing Zhang, VP of Marketing, Canadian Solar
Isabelle Charron, Présidente-directrice générale, Groupe AGÉCO
Jane Abernethy, Chief Sustainability Officer, Humanscale
Jean-Philippe Shoiry, Chief of Strategy, Partner, Republik
Jeffrey Cyr, Managing Partner, Raven Indigenous Capital Partners
Jennifer Lonergan, Founder & CEO, Artistri Sud
Jill Baker, Senior ESIA Specialist, Golder Associates
Joanna Buczkowska-McCumber, Executive Director, League of Innovators
Jonathan Fowlie, Vice President, Government Relations, Public Affairs and Community Investment, Vancity Credit Union
Julia Langer, CEO, The Atmospheric Fund
Julie Ranger, Head of Marketing and Communications, BNP Paribas
Karen Lockridge, Director, ESG Investing, Canada Post Corporation Pension Plan
Kate Ruff, Executive Director; Assistant Professor, Common Approach to Impact Measurement & The Sprott School of Business
Laura Zizzo, CEO, Mantle314 Inc.
Livia Arrigoni, Director, Sustainability and Climate Change, PwC
Lori Nikkel, CEO, Second Harvest
Marc-André Mailhot, Président fondateur, Maillon Vert
Melissa Jacobs, Senior Director, Sustainability, First Capital REIT
Michael van Aanhout, Chairman, Stratos Inc.
Mike Andrade, CEO, Morgan Solar
Mike Rowlands, President and CEO, Junxion Strategy
Monica Da Ponte, Principal, Shift & Build
Natalia Arjomand, Director, SecondMuse Capital
Nico Ahn, Group Lead, ESG Disclosures and Reporting, Allianz SE
Norm Tasevski, Co-Founder + CEO, Ourboro Inc.
Olivier Gamache, Président du conseil, Groupe Investissement Responsable inc.
Paul Allard, CEO, impak Finance, l'agence de notation d'impact indépendante
Peggy Van de Plassche, Managing Partner, Roar Growth
Philippe Dunsky, President, Dunsky Energy
Richard Tuck, CEO, Wakopa Financial
Sherazad Adib, Directrice principale, Catalyst Inc.
Stephanie Emond, Chief Impact Officer / Vice-présidente impact et opérations, FinDev Canada
Steven Pacifico, Director, Sustainability and Innovation, Corporate Sustainability Professional for 20+ Years
Susan Uthayakumar, Managing Director, Sustainability Business Division, Schneider Electric
Tim Penketh, Founder & CEO, The Future Economy
Tony Pringle, Principal and Co-Founder, Quinn & Partners
Velma McColl, Principal, Earnscliffe Strategy Group
Vincent Guimont-Hébert, Président - Fondateur, Brundtland Minds
William Sisson, Executive Director, WBCSD North America, World Business Council for Sustainable Development
Yuho Okada, President, Barkley Project Group
Zabala, Irina Scarlete, CEO, AMNIe.org
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Students and Alumni
We are gathering nationwide support for this initiative. Take a look at some of the youth signatories below. This list is updated regularly to reflect the names of the most recent signatories. The full list includes more than 1000 names and counting.
Name: Bob Mitchell
University: University of Calgary
Program: MBA in Finance
Name: Elizabeth Castrillon
University: York University
Program: MBA
Name: Logan Aitken
University: University of British Columbia
Program: Finance
Name: Marylie Lindsay-Talboy
University: University du Québec en Outaouais
Program: Accounting
Name: Alix Karsh-LeClaire
University: Queen's University
Program: Commerce
Name: Quan Nguyen
University: McGill University
Program: Finance
Name: Janessa Grossett
University: Trent University
Program: Business Administration & Environmental and Resource Studies
Name: Jim Fonger
University: York University
Program: Economics
Name: Natalie Irwin
University: Carleton University
Program: Sustainable Energy Policy
Name: Sandy Nadugala
University: University of Ottawa
Program: Human Resources
Name: Marco Maitland
University: University of Manitoba
Program: Accounting
Name: Simran Sandhu
University: Brock University
Program: Business Administration
Name: Victoria Tomasiak
University: University of Guelph
Program: Marketing Management
Name: Steven Sharpe
University: University of Regina
Program: Accounting
Name: Gareth Gransaull
University: Western University
Program: Honors Business Administration
Name: Marie-Christine Gagnon
University: Université de Sherbrooke
Program: Environnement
Name: Alicia Zaatar
University: HEC Montreal
Program: Accounting
Name: Haranjan Singh
University: University of Alberta
Program: Business
Name: Alexandre Hamelin
University: Université Laval
Program: MBA
Name: Brenda Plant
University: HEC Montreal
Program: International Business
Name: Shikhank Sharma
University: Simon Fraser University
Program: Finance/Sustainability
Name: Lana Bober
University: Concordia University
Program: Marketing
Name: Gabriela Rodriguez
University: Thompson Rivers University
Program: Marketing
Name: Dominique Boudreault
University: UQAM
Program: Finance
Name: James Mason
University: University of Victoria
Program: Sustainable Innovation
Name: Ifeanyi Eziuloh
University: University of Winnipeg
Program: Business Administration
Name: Geordie Hancock
University: Ryerson University
Program: Business Management, Law and Business
Name: Sarah Gaeta
University: Wilfrid Laurier
Program: Marketing
Name: Samantha Linton
University: University of Waterloo
Program: Sustainability Management
Name: Farzana Mussa
University: University of Toronto
Program: Consulting
This list is updated regularly to reflect the names of the most recent signatories.