Anne Giardini

PREVIOUSLY #29, 2014) CHANCELLOR, SFU

Higher Education A true Renaissance woman, Anne Giardini—bestselling author, former Weyerhaeuser president, current chair of the Vancouver Board of Trade—has no shortage of accomplishments to her name. But arguably her biggest achievement in recent years has been overseeing smooth sailing at SFU as chancellor—this at a time of extreme turbulence at rival UBC. In January 2017, the trained lawyer joined her mother— the late author Carol Shields—in being named an o–cer of the Order of Canada.