Prep for Oct 4: Special Guest – Investor Relations

Our guest speaker in this class will be Christie Stephenson, Executive Director of the Peter P. Dhillon Centre for Business Ethics. Prior to joining UBC Sauder, Christie spent more than 15 years at leading socially responsible and impact investing firms including Sustainalytics, NEI Investments (Ethical Funds) and Purpose Capital. She previously worked in politics, government and the non-profit sector. She currently serves as a corporate reporting judge for CPA Canada, a governance committee member for BlueShoreFinancial and a director of the Canadian Centre for International Justice and Canadian Business for Social Responsibility. Christie has an undergraduate degree from University of Victoria and a graduate degree from McGill University.

Before class, please:
  1. Read the Canadian Investor Relations Institute’s very brief Investor Relations FAQs.
  2. Read “Effective Investor Relations (IR): Lessons from the trenches” (Deloitte.com, n.d.).
  3. There is no prep quiz for this class.