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Dr. Kathleen Martin Ginis

Professor and Director, Faculty of Medicine Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Management | University of British Columbia

Mental health benefits of exercise | Exercise and chronic disease prevention | Exercise behaviour change | Disability |Spinal Cord Injury | Women and Exercise | Body Image | Knowledge Translation

Sandra Moore

Director | Cleantech Academy and Innovation Centre

Sandra Moore is the Director of the Cleantech Innovation Centre in Georgetown, PEI, and leads a collaborative initiative known as the PEI Cleantech Academy to help grow PEI's cleantech economy and to become Canada's first net-zero province. She has over 25 years of senior leadership experience working in Canada, Africa, and the South Pacific in higher education, workforce development, energy, sustainability, and cleantech innovation.

Ghazal Geshnizjani

Research Associate Professor | University of Waterloo

Theoretical physics, Big bang, Cosmology, Mathematical physics, Astrophysics, Gravity

Barnali Choudhury

Professor of Law and Director, Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime & Security Rights | Osgoode Hall Law School

Corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, environmental, social and governance (ESG), business and human rights, supply chains, climate change and human rights, international law, international trade, international investment law

Andréa Coutu, she/her/hers

Consultant | Consultant Journal

Entrepreneurship, marketing, business, communications, COVID-19 and remote/virtual work, women in business, parent of children with special needs, special needs policy, advocacy