Leading Your Climate Change Action Plan

Ian Arellano

After a successful career in private practice with Torys LLP and McCarthy Tétrault LLP, Ian became Scotiabank's Executive Vice President and General Counsel on January 2, 2018. In addition to overseeing Scotiabank's legal matters, he has oversight over the Corporate Governance Office, the Corporate Secretary's Department, and Global Communications, Social Impact, and Sustainability.

Ian is Scotiabank's representative with the federal government's Sustainable Finance Action Council (SFAC). SFAC is comprised of 25 organizations from Canada's deposit-taking institutions, insurance companies, and pension funds, which, combined, have more than $10 trillion in assets. The SFAC brings together public and private sector financial expertise to support the growth of a strong, well-functioning, sustainable finance market and strengthen the mobilization of private capital in support of Canada's climate goals.

In October 2021, Scotiabank announced its commitment to join the Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) led by former central bank governor Mark Carney, which commits them to net-zero emissions targets tied to lending. NZBA is an industry group convened by the United Nations to speed up efforts to combat climate change. Ian had oversight over the Bank's recently completed Net Zero Carbon Pathway project, a close to year-long project to identify and, where feasible, set targets for the reduction of the Bank's financed emissions intensity in key sectors of the Bank's financing activities most relevant from a carbon emissions perspective. The Bank expects to publicly announce the results of these efforts shortly.

Chris Clark

FCA, FCAP

Mr. Clark was the former Chief Executive Officer and senior partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in Canada from July 2005 to July 2011. He graduated from Queens University with a Bachelor of Commerce and the University of Toronto with a Masters of Business Administration. He is a Fellow Chartered Accountant, and a Fellow Chartered Professional Accountant.

Since 2011, Mr. Clark has served as a Corporate Director on numerous public and not-for-profit companies. He currently serves on the Boards of Loblaw Companies Limited, Air Canada, SNC Lavalin, and Choice Properties REIT. He chairs the Audit, Finance, and Risk Committees at Loblaws and Air Canada and has served on several public companies' Governance and Human Resources Committees. 

In addition to his public company board memberships, Mr. Clark currently serves on the Boards of the Canadian Olympic Committee, the Canadian Olympic Foundation, Own The Podium, and The Sunnybrook Hospital Foundation. He chairs the Audit and Finance Committees at the Canadian Olympic Foundation and Own The Podium. He is also a member of the Advisory Council of the Stephen R Smith School of Business at Queen's University.

Mr. Clark is passionate about sports and has recently competed at the world championships for the half ironman and ironman distance triathlons. 

Wendy Kei

FCPA, FCA, ICD.D

Wendy Kei is an accomplished finance executive with over 25 years of business experience across multiple industries. She currently serves as Board Chair for Ontario Power Generation Inc. (OPG). She is the Chair of the Audit Committee for both Karora Resources Inc. (TSX: KRR) and Noranda Income Fund (TSX: NIF.UN).
 
In 2022, Ms. Kei was honored as a Fellow from the Institute of Corporate Directors (F.ICD). In 2020, she was named one of Canada's Top 100 Most Powerful Women and honored as a Fellow Chartered Professional Accountant (FCPA-FCA) designation. In 2016, she was selected as a Diversity 50 Candidate by the Canadian Board Diversity Council.
 
Ms. Kei is a Fellow of the Chartered Professional Accountants of Ontario, holds a Fellow designation from the Institute of Corporate Directors, and has a Bachelor of Mathematics from the University of Waterloo.

Maureen McCaw

Maureen McCaw was elected to Suncor's Board of Directors in 2004. She is the chair of the environment, health, safety and sustainable development committee and is an audit committee member.

Ms. McCaw was a director of Petro Canada and is past executive vice president of Canada's largest privately held market research firm, Leger Marketing, formerly Criterion Research Corp., a company she founded in 1986.

Ms. McCaw is a director of the Francis Winspear Centre for Music and the Edmonton Symphony, the Nature Conservancy of Canada, and the Royal Alexandra Hospital Foundation Social Enterprise Company. She is also past chair of the Edmonton International Airport and the Edmonton Chamber of Commerce. She has previously served as chair of the CBC Pension Fund Plan board of trustees and on the board of directors of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Ms. McCaw holds a bachelor of arts from the University of Alberta, has completed the Columbia Business School's executive program in financial accounting and has an Institute of Corporate Directors designation (ICD.D).

Karen Clarke-Whistler

ICD.D, M.Sc.

Karen Clarke-Whistler is a Principal at ESG Global Advisors, where she provides strategic advice to corporate clients and investors. She was Chief Environment Officer for TD Bank Group (2008-2018). She currently serves on the Boards of Enerplus Corp (ERF: TSX/NYSE) and Altius Renewable Royalties Corp. (ARR: TSX).