STEPHANIE BERTELS
Director Centre for Corporate Governance and Sustainability, SFU Beedie School of Business and Founder, Embedding Project

Stephanie Bertels is the director of the Centre for Corporate Governance and Sustainability at Simon Fraser University's (SFU) Beedie School of Business in Vancouver, Canada. She founded and leads the Embedding Project, where she works with dozens of global companies to help them embed sustainability into their operations and decision-making. Stephanie developed an online knowledge portal (www.embeddingproject.org) featuring the most relevant corporate sustainability resources - including practical guides and tools developed through her own research. Her most recent work reviews of over 3200 board position statements and taps into interviews with over 300 global CEOs and Board Chairs to explore how corporate governance and corporate strategy processes are shifting to account for environmental and social constraints. Stephanie is the Chair of SFU’s Faculty Pension Plan and a regular fellow of the Salzburg Global Corporate Governance Seminar.