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Henry Angus Room 968
UBC Sauder School of Business
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The Dhillon Centre for Business Ethics at UBC Sauder and UBC Sauder’s Ch’nook Indigenous Business Education initiative are pleased to co-host “Indigenous considerations in ESGI: Attracting investment, advancing reconciliation, and breathing life into UNDRIP” with Geordie Hungerford on March 6, 2023, as part of the Dhillon Centre’s 2022-23 ESGI Investing Speaker Series.
There is a growing recognition that consideration for Indigenous rights and interests need to run throughout the development of ESGI standards. Across the globe Indigenous communities are calling for greater legal recognition of their rights – such as the requirement for free, prior, and informed consent – and investors are hungry for opportunities that take these rights into account.
First Nations Financial Management Board CEO Geordie Hungerford will speak on the organization’s work to bring Indigenous factors to the centre of ESGI planning and standards setting. Success in these efforts, the FMB believes, will attract quality investment to Canada, advance reconciliation, and breathe life into the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People (UNDRIP).
About the Speaker:
Geordie Hungerford – Chief Executive Officer, CFA, CAIA, MBA, LLB
Geordie is of British and Gwich’in (Northwest Territories and Yukon modern agreement) ancestry. He is the Chief Executive Officer of the First Nations Financial Management Board, one of three fiscal institutions created under the First Nations Fiscal Management Act
The FMB assists First Nations in developing and by certifying their administrative and financial management capacity, and in developing their financial relationships with business and government to enable their economic and social development.
Geordie brings deep experience in finance and financial law, with experience as a senior investment products securities lawyer at the British Columbia Securities Commission, financial tribunal Chair and CEO at the Financial Services Tribunal (BC), management consultant at McKinsey & Company and mergers and acquisitions investment banker at Broadview (now Jefferies).
He has also practiced Aboriginal and corporate law at a national law firm, driven economic development initiatives for the Gwich’in Nation, and represented the Gwich’in Nation in international Arctic economic development forums at the Arctic Economic Council and Arctic Council. He has initiated and led Indigenous mentoring, networking, Reconciliation and UNDRIP policy development initiatives at the Canadian Bar Association, BC and National.
Geordie holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and an MA (East Asian Studies/Chinese) from Stanford University, a law degree from the University of British Columbia, and an electrical and computer engineering degree from Queen’s University. He is proficient in Mandarin Chinese, having studied for a year at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. Geordie is a CFA Charterholder, CAIA Charterholder and an Action Canada Fellow.
