Jeanette Southwood

Principal, Global and Canadian Sustainable Cities Leader Golder Associates
Panelist: Sustainable Communities – Clean and Smart

Jeanette is a Principal at Golder Associates - a global, employee-owned ground engineering and environmental services firm of 7,000 around the world founded in Toronto in 1960. At Golder, Jeanette leads the Global and Canadian Sustainable Cities teams across many sectors including Transportation, Energy & Power, Real Estate, Finance, Insurance and Legal, Land Development, Manufacturing, and Infrastructure. One area of focus for her team is the strategic integration of cutting-edge global innovation and knowledge into economical and effective local solutions.

An award-winning engineer, Jeanette received the Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO) Young Engineer Medal in 1997 and has received other honours and recognition over the years, most recently becoming a Fellow of Engineers Canada. For more than 20 years, she has directed and participated in numerous projects related to urban intensification and the sustainable revitalization of communities for a wide variety of private and public clients. Currently, Jeanette also serves as a member of the University of Toronto Advisory Board for the Master of Environmental Science Program and the Board of Directors of the Ontario Environment Industry Association (ONEIA).