Dr. Carol Liao is an Associate Professor at the Peter A. Allard School of Law, and the UBC Sauder Distinguished Fellow of the Peter P. Dhillon Centre for Business Ethics, University of British Columbia. She is the Chair of the Canada Climate Law Initiative, a national research institute advancing director knowledge on climate governance and fiduciary obligations. She is also the Co-Director with Naomi Klein of the Centre for Climate Justice. An internationally respected scholar in corporate law and sustainability, Carol has delivered over 200 invited talks around the world and has been featured over 100 times in TV, radio, and print news media.
She sits on the boards of InBC Investment Corporation, YWCA Metro Vancouver, and the Canadian Foundation for Governance Research at the Institute of Corporate Directors. Carol has been recognized with the Influential Women in Business Award, BCBusiness Women of the Year Award, Canada’s Clean50 Award, TELUS Community Service Award, UBC Public Engagement Award, and was named as one of Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women and Canada’s Top 25 Most Influential Lawyers in 2024. Prior to academia, she was a senior lawyer in the New York Mergers & Acquisitions Group of an international law firm, where she represented public and private multinational corporations in a variety of transactional and governance matters.
