Carol Liao Board Member, YWCA Metro Vancouver

Dr. Carol Liao is an Associate Professor at the UBC Allard School of Law and the UBC Sauder Distinguished Fellow of the Dhillon Centre for Business Ethics at the UBC Sauder School of Business. She is the Chair of the Canada Climate Law Initiative, an interdisciplinary research centre dedicated to advancing director knowledge on the latest in climate science and fiduciary obligations. 

Carol is internationally recognized for her expertise in corporate law and sustainability, climate governance, gender and racial justice, and has widely published in these fields. Prior to academia, she was a corporate lawyer in New York, where she represented private and public multinational corporations in a variety of transactional and governance matters. Carol is the recipient of the Business in Vancouver Influential Women in Business Award, BCBusiness Women of the Year Award, TELUS Community Service Award, Canada’s Clean50 Award, and was named as one of Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women by the Women’s Executive Network.