Harrie Vredenburg

Dr. Vredenburg is Professor of Strategy and Suncor Chair in Strategy and Sustainability at the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary, where he has been on faculty since 1989 prior to which he taught at McGill University. Dr. Vredenburg founded the Haskayne School of Business's Global Energy Executive MBA program and served as its Academic Director from 2010 through 2018 and co-founded the MSc program in Sustainable Energy Development and served as its Academic Director from 1996 through 2006. He also holds appointments as a Research Fellow at the University of Calgary's School of Public Policy and as an International Research Fellow at the Saïd Business School at Oxford University in the United Kingdom.

Dr. Vredenburg is a leading scholar in the areas of competitive strategy, innovation, sustainable development, and corporate governance in the global energy and natural resource industries. He has authored and co-authored more than 50 frequently cited articles in leading international journals including Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, MIT Sloan Management Review, Harvard Business Review, Technovation, Energy Policy, Energies, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, International Journal of Economics and Business Research and Global Business and Economics Review. He has also coauthored government reports on industry regulation, innovation, and competitiveness and on nuclear energy and consults to industry. His publications have been cited more than 7,000 times according to Google Scholar.

Dr. Vredenburg is Chair of the Board of Directors of TERIC Power Ltd., a Director of Prairie Thunder Resources Ltd., and a member of the advisory board of Proton Technologies Canada Inc., all private companies. He was previously a Director of Petrobank Energy and Resources Ltd. from 2006 to 2012 and of Kainji Resources Ltd. from 2010 to 2020.

Dr. Vredenburg holds a BA (Hons) in history from the University of Toronto, an MBA in international business and finance from McMaster University and a PhD in strategic management from the University of Western Ontario. Dr. Vredenburg also holds an ICD.D designation as a member of the Institute of Corporate Directors. He holds dual Canadian and Dutch (EU) nationalities.