Marilyn Spink, FCAE, P.Eng., ICD.D
Independent Director & Advisor, Canadian Critical Minerals & Materials Alliance
Marilyn is a tireless advocate for Engineers, the Mining & Minerals industry and the value both provide to society and to our global energy transition. She is credible and is persuasive in her views that inclusion of Women and other marginalized groups in both Engineering & Mining will benefit all of humanity. She is frank, honest and she brings a unique perspective on these intersecting areas and how it relates to Leadership, Engineering Design, Sustainability, and Science Literacy in society to resolve and accelerate climate action.
Media
Opportunities for Canada from the Energy Transition
BNN Bloomberg, October 15, 2024Television
Marilyn Spink, director of operations of Canadian Critical Minerals & Materials Alliance, joins us and talks about opportunities for Canada from the energy transition.
"Canada needs an industrialization strategy beyond just taking rocks out of the ground"
Globe and Mail, Report on Business, September 27, 2024Print
Online and Print
The Newsletter of EBS Geostructural Issue 8 Page 4
EBS Geostructural, January 15, 2018Online
URL: http://www.ebsgeo.com/who-we-are/geo-newsletter
Contribution to clarify the Professional Engineers Ontario PEAK program. (Professional Engineers Aquiring Knowledge)
Why are there still so few women in mining?
Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, November 17, 2017Online
URL: http://magazine.cim.org/en/voices/why-are-there-still-so-few-women-in-miningen/
Interviewed by CIM Publication staff at the November 2017 Global Gender Summit in Montreal
Biography
Marilyn Spink is an award-winning professional engineer having held leadership roles of increasing responsibility managing multi-discipline engineering design teams to deliver complex minerals development projects in North and South America, Africa, and Southeast Asia ranging in value from $US500M to $9B.
With over 16 years of experience as a corporate director, Marilyn is committed to the integration of positive social impact, environmental stewardship, and financial performance in her board oversight roles by employing “right touch” governance principles to help guide organizations toward triple-bottom-line success. Through her impressive engineering achievements, she has consistently strived to engage and develop local communities, build national and local economies, improve companies’ financial performance, tackle complex environmental challenges that preserve the planet and its finite resources, and ensure mine development projects are sustainable long after completion. In 2020, Marilyn was designated as a Certified Sustainability Practitioner, attained her Institute of Corporate Directors ICD.D designation and in 2023 she was inducted as a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering.
Ms. Spink is also a registered Professional Engineer with Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO) and with the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan (APEGS).
Additional Titles and Affiliations
Canadian Critical Minerals & Materials Alliance
Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering
P.Eng.
Past Talks
Taking TNFD to your Board of Directors
UN-PRI side event: (https://smith.queensu.ca/centres/isf/events/UNPRI-TNFD.php)
Smith School of Business Campus in Toronto, October 7, 2024
Taking TNFD to your Board of Directors
UN-PRI side event: (https://smith.queensu.ca/centres/isf/events/UNPRI-TNFD.php)
Smith School of Business Campus in Toronto, October 7, 2024