Josephine Victoria Yam

Josephine Yam is a highly accomplished lawyer with significant years of professional legal, policy, leadership and entrepreneurial experiences in the private, public and nonprofit sectors in Canada and internationally. She has been admitted to practice law in New York (USA), Alberta (Canada), Ontario (Canada) and the Philippines. She has also been interviewed on international television such as CNN and CNBC and featured in the international news magazine Newsweek.

As a lawyer-entrepreneur, Yam is CEO & Co-Founder of B3 Canada, the first mission-driven organization in Canada dedicated to building breakthrough boards through innovative business-nonprofit Board matching programs. In this entrepreneurial role, she strategically leverages her deep tri-sector work experience in the private sector (as lawyer with international law firm Baker & McKenzie), public sector (as senior legal counsel with the Alberta Government's Department of Energy) and the nonprofit sector (as CEO / Executive Director of the Environmental Law Centre of Alberta and as nonprofit board director). This wealth of expertise and experience underlies her belief that cross-sector collaboration in social innovation is crucial to creating the world we want.

Yam recently graduated from Stanford University's Executive Program for Non-Profit Leaders. She also completed her Master of Laws (LLM) degree at the University of Calgary, Faculty of Law. Complementing her advanced education at Harvard Law School and the University of Toronto, Yam served as one of the 40 Energy Futures Lab Fellows of The Natural Step Canada. She is currently Co-Vice Chair of the International Women's Forum (IWF) Toronto Chapter's Executive Committee for Membership & Nominations and member of the Canadian Bar Association.