Kathleen Sendall

Kathleen Sendall has been appointed chair of the Expert Panel on the State of Industrial Research and Development in Canada — a new assessment being carried out by the Council of Canadian Academies (see page 6). Sendall is director and vice-chair of Alberta Innovates - Energy and Environmental Solutions, director of CGG Veritas and director of Enmax Corp. Past experience includes senior VP of Petro Canada's North American natural gas business unit, board chair of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers and president of the Canadian Academy of Engineering. She holds a BSc in mechanical engineering from Queen's Univ and attended the Ivey Executive Program at the Ivy School of Business....