Andy Chisholm
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Andy Chisholm

Member of the Expert Panel on Sustainable Finance, Board Director, Royal Bank of Canada

Andy is a member of the Board of Directors of Royal Bank of Canada. Prior to that he spent most of his career at Goldman Sachs & Co, which he joined in 1985 in New York. He served in a variety of progressively more senior leadership roles within the organization during his 30 year career including as Senior Strategy Officer of the firm globally from 2012 – 2014, as Head or co-Head of the Global Financial Institutions Group in both London and New York from 2002 – 2012, and as co- Chair of the Firmwide Commitments Committee (primarily overseeing the firm’s equity underwriting activities) from 2011 – 2015.

He is currently a member of the Federal government’s Expert Panel on Sustainable Finance. He holds a B. Comm from Queens University (1981) and graduated with an MBA from the Ivey Business School at Western University in 1985. He is Chair of the Ivey Business School Advisory Board, is a Board Member of Evergreen, and sits on the Advisory Board of ArcTern Ventures. He lives in Toronto with his family.

 

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Canada’s Energy Transformation: How are We Going to Get There?

  • Energy Transformation
The global energy transformation is underway. But here in Canada, polarized and fragmented debates across province-lines are preventing progress on our Paris commitments and prohibiting a unified Canadian voice on the international stage. Join us for an honest and challenging dialogue with the leaders who must make it happen, as we aim to find common ground and spur action.

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Speakers
Martha Hall Findlay Chief Sustainability Officer, Suncor Energy
Andy Chisholm Member of the Expert Panel on Sustainable Finance, Board Director, Royal Bank of Canada
Leah Lawrence President and Chief Executive Officer, Sustainable Development Technology Canada
Christyne Tremblay Deputy Minister, Natural Resources Canada
Chad Park Chief Innovation Officer, The Natural Step