Membership Type: Professional

Christie Stephenson

Christie Stephenson is the Executive Director of the Peter P. Dhillon Centre for Business Ethics at UBC Sauder School of Business and a national expert on social and environmental investment and governance.

Before joining UBC Sauder in 2016, Christie spent more than 15 years at socially responsible and impact investing firms Sustainalytics (then Jantzi Research Associates), NEI Investments (Ethical Funds) and Rally Assets (previously Purpose Capital).

Christie also has more than two decades of diverse director experience, serving on the boards of organizations addressing a variety of social and environmental issues, as well as values-driven companies in a range of industries, across the spectrum from start-ups to large mature entities and with both business-to-consumer and business-to-business operating models. This has included the boards of non-profit organizations, university bodies, cooperatives, a multi-employer pension plan, private companies, and reporting issuers.

She is a member of the Climate Governance Experts Network of the Canadian Climate Law Initiative, the Metro Vancouver Zero Emissions Innovation Centre’s investment committee, the British Columbia Securities Commission Corporate Finance Stakeholder Forum, and the International Impact and Sustainable Finance Faculty Consortium.

She has served as a judge for Governance Professionals of Canada’s Excellence in Governance Awards, the Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada’s Corporate Reporting Awards and the Canadian Investment Review’s Pension Leadership Awards.

She has delivered board governance training through UBC Sauder Executive Education, Directors College, and the Governance Professionals of Canada; taught environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing to undergraduate and MBA students; and delivered training for a variety of professionals including accountants on non-financial disclosure through the Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada.

Christie is a regular media commentator on business ethics and ESG issues, whose views are covered by TV, print and radio media.

Rommie Johnson

The IFRS Foundation is a not-for-profit, public interest organisation established to develop high-quality, understandable, enforceable and globally accepted accounting and sustainability disclosure standards—IFRS Standards—and to promote and facilitate adoption of the standards.

Aymen Karoui

Aymen Karoui works at Sustainalytics|Morningstar as a Director in the Methodology and Portfolio Research team. He was an associate professor of finance at York University, Glendon College. Prior to that, he was an associate professor in the Department of Finance at the University of Quebec at Montreal. Furthermore, he worked for a couple of years as a portfolio manager at Desjardins Global Asset Management. Karoui holds a Ph.D. in administration from HEC Montreal, an MBA in Finance from Laval University (Quebec City), and a bachelor’s degree in finance from IHEC Carthage.

Cameron Field

VIDOCQ is a rising firm which designs tailored investigation, intelligence and risk management solutions. We have built our reputation on the precision and depth of our services, which provide our prestigious and demanding clients with powerful decision-making advantages.

Founded in 2014 by a former Royal Canadian Mounted Police investigator specializing in white-collar crime, VIDOCQ today has brought together some sixty professionals with diverse backgrounds and expertise. Our mandates take us into cyberspace and all over the globe.

Our clients value how we respond to their needs with agility and flexibility, as well as our extreme discretion, especially during interventions in their workplaces.

Our firm’s name is inspired by Eugène-François Vidocq, a renowned and unique figure in the intelligence world.

Alexandre Ouellet-Gendron

Created by and for professionals, Professionals’ Financial is fully dedicated to responding to its clients’ wealth management needs, offering innovative and customized solutions, while maintaining the highest standards of competence, integrity and corporate governance.