Annette Verschuren

Smart Prosperity co-chair; CEO, NRStor; former CEO, Home Depot Canada

We have two critical innovation opportunities in Canada right now. One is to enable our traditional industries to reinvent themselves in order to compete in a low-carbon economy.

Arlene Dickinson

CEO, Venture Communications

Smart Prosperity is Canada's chance to do the right thing, for all the right reasons.

Brent Bergeron

Executive Vice President, Corporate Affairs and Sustainability, Goldcorp Inc.

Bruce Simpson

Senior Partner, McKinsey and Company

Craig Stewart

Vice-president, Insurance Bureau of Canada

Darren Entwistle

President and CEO, Telus

To excel in an evolving global economy, we need to make generational investments in our country that will future-proof our cities and improve the way Canadians live, work, socialise and serve their communities in our dynamic digital world.

David Runnalls

Board President, Pembina

Dominique Souris

Co-founder & Executive Director, Youth Climate Lab

Galen Weston

President, Executive Chairman, Loblaw Companies Limited

Climate change is the single greatest challenge facing society today. The solution requires thoughtful, stable, harmonized public policy, which enables the private sector and citizens to mobilize.

Greg Kiessling

President, UpCapital Ltd.

I believe we have a duty to future Canadians to have an economy that is 100% in sync with the environment, not an economy that is successful at the expense of the environment.

Jane McDonald

President (interim), International Institute for Sustainable Development

Jean Simard

President & CEO, Aluminium Association of Canada and co-founder and Director, SWITCH

Through its Cap and Trade and its CleanTech ecosystem Quebec has captured the essence of a green economy: working together to carve a sustainable future.Time has come to bring together the creative minds of Canadians through innovation,capital and clean technology in a single unifying vision of a gr

John Coyne

Vice President, External Affairs & Sustainability, Unilever Canada Inc. Executive Chair, Canadian Stewardship Services Alliance, Inc. (CSSA)

John Lounds

President & CEO, Nature Conservancy of Canada

John Stackhouse

Senior Vice-President, Office of the CEO, RBC; Former Editor-in-Chief, Globe and Mail

Smart prosperity is about better growth. It's about finding the most efficient ways to produce and share what the world needs. Our economy must revolve around brainpower, technology, trade and the world's greatest trove of natural resources.

Ken Neumann

Canadian National Director, United Steelworkers

Kirsten Tisdale

Managing Partner, Government and Public Sector Advisory Services British Columbia, Ernst & Young

Lorraine Mitchelmore

Smart Prosperity co-chair, and Chair, Resources for the Future Economic Strategy Table

The future will be about how do you develop resources and grow the economy in a world where we need to have a smaller environmental footprint. I think Canadians are ready to take on this challenge and become leaders in this space.

Marcia Smith

Senior Vice President, Sustainability and External Affairs, Teck Resources

Meredith Adler

Executive Director, Student Energy

Merran Smith

Executive director, Clean Energy Canada

Merrell-Ann Phare

Founding Executive Director, Centre for Indigenous Resources

Miles Richardson

Director, National Consortium for Indigenous Economic Development

Rick Smith

Executive Director, Broadbent Institute

Rob Wesseling

President & CEO, The Co-operators

Ross Beaty

Chair, Pan American Silver Corp

Canada needs to chart a new course, one that is sustainable in the truest sense - based on permanence. This means, for example, renewable energy, smart homes, clean transportation and less consumptive lifestyles. All Canadians will be more prosperous if this can be achieved.

Stewart Elgie

Smart Prosperity co-chair; Professor of law and economics, University of Ottawa

We know how to build an economy that generates wealth and jobs with less environmental harm. In fact we’ve already begun. Now we need to pick up the pace, to lay the foundation for Canada’s future prosperity

Susannah Pierce

President and Country Chair GM, Renewables and Energy Solutions at Shell

We will need three key elements to build a low-carbon economy: a shared vision, creative policy frameworks and tremendous collaboration across all sectors of society. I’m confident that these elements, combined with Canadian ingenuity, will make Canada both an economic and environmental leader.

Vicky Sharpe

Former President and CEO, Sustainable Development Technology Canada

I believe that Canada has a tremendous opportunity to evolve into a different, more competitive country. It’s not about taking away part of what we do, it’s about integrating and optimizing value, and moving Canada up the value chain.