Hope Sanderson is a part time associate professor at Royal Roads University. She has a consulting practice working across many sectors and with parties whose interests can be complimentary or conflictual. She has spent close to 30 years working in the energy sector.
Much of her career has seen her building stakeholder and Indigenous relationships, economic development and in government advocacy on many different types of energy projects, from oilsands to pipeline mega-projects, offshore, LNG, renewables, shale gas and more.
Sanderson is fluent in English and French, and holds a bilingual Bachelor of Arts degree from Faculté St. Jean at the University of Alberta, a Community Relations certificate from Boston College, a Stakeholder Negotiation Certificate from Harvard and MIT, and an MBA from Royal Roads University. Hope completed her doctorate at SMC University in Switzerland, in June of 2020. Her research explored the governance of infrastructure funding for First Nation projects, specifically looking at the safe drinking water issue, all in consideration of the role of traditional knowledge and Indigenous governance.
An avid athlete, she was a nationally ranked swimmer in her youth and has competed in multiple marathons and triathlons since 1994, having successfully completed the Ironman Triathlon four times.
Experience
Sanderson has extensive background in Indigenous consultation and in conducting traditional land use studies which produce intellectual property for the Indigenous community, which have also served as regulatory filings. She has played key leadership roles in regulatory hearings, having served as the industry Chef D’Équippe in the controversial Quebec shale gas BAPE hearing. A synergist, effective problem solver and negotiator, Sanderson is Metis, and is actively engaged in the Metis community.
In her volunteer capacities, Sanderson is a member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Mental Health Association (Calgary), and past Indigenous member of the board of directors of CESO (Canadian Executive Service Organization), Ronald McDonald House of Southern Alberta, and was appointed by the Alberta Minister of Child and Family Services in 2005 as Indigenous Board Member of Child and Family Services. In 2012 she was appointed by the Alberta Premier and Minister of Aboriginal Relations to the Council for the Economic Security of Aboriginal Women. In 2015, Sanderson was nominated as one of Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women
Education
2020
Doctorate of Management
SMC University
2008
Certificate in Negotiation
Harvard/MIT
2003
Master of Business Administration
Royal Roads University
1996
Certificate in Corporate Community Involvement
Boston College
1991
Bilingual Bachelor of Arts
University of Alberta