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Sue Paish, Q.C.,
chair, is a partner with
Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP. A former managing partner and member of the
National Partnership Board, she brings over 20 years experience in working with
employers on human rights, employment and labour matters. She is currently a
member of the board of directors for ICBC and chair of the Human Resources
Committee. She has also served as vice-chair of the Vancouver Board of Trade,
director on the board of the Women’s Hospital Foundation, and was former
vice-chair of the British Columbia Institute of Technology Foundation. Paish
earned her Bachelor of Commerce and Business Administration in 1981 and her
LL.B in 1982 from UBC, and was called to the British Columbia Bar in 1983. In
2005, she was named one of Canada’s Top 200 Most Powerful Woman.
Josiah Wood, Q.C., F.C.I.Arb, has been a partner since 1998 at the Vancouver office of Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP, one of Canada’s largest and oldest law firms with offices across Canada, in New York, Chicago, London and Beijing. In 1983, he was appointed to the British Columbia Supreme Court, the Province’s senior trial court. In October of 1989, Wood was elevated to the position of Justice of the British Columbia and Yukon Territory Courts of Appeal, a position he occupied until returning to private practice on Feb. 1, 1996. He was chair of B.C.’s Electoral Boundaries Commission from 1997 to 1999.
Dr. Sandra Robinson has been a professor in the Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources Division at the University of British Columbia’s Sauder School of Business since 1998. Designated a Distinguished University Scholar, her research interests include employment contracts, psychological contracts, and employee-employer relationships. She has also taught executive education courses in attracting and retaining human resources, negotiations, compensation and performance, developing and maintaining trust in organizations, and leading change. She earned her BA and MSc from UBC, and her PhD from Northwestern’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management.
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