TORONTO — The Women’s Executive Network (WXN) has announced its list of Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 for 2017 and it includes three University of Toronto Engineering alumnae: Nancy Hill, Claire Kennedy and Jeannette Southwood.
WXN launched the awards in 2003 to celebrate the professional achievements of strong female leaders across the country in the private, public and not-for-profit sectors.
An award-winning engineer, Southwood has demonstrated strategic vision and the ability to drive performance throughout her career in senior leadership at the global, national, provincial and local levels, states a release.
Prior to joining Engineers Canada in November 2015, she was the first visible minority principal at Golder Associates, a global firm of more than 8,000 around the world.
This is her second time being named a Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 winner.
Hill is a professional engineer, lawyer, patent agent, trademark agent and founding partner of an award-winning patent and trademark firm.
Her efforts helped make sexual harassment part of the definition of professional misconduct in the Ontario Professional Engineers Act, states the release, adding Hill was invested as a companion in the Professional Engineers Ontario Order of Honour for her advocacy.
Recognized as one of Canada’s leading lawyers in tax and transfer pricing, Kennedy provides corporate tax and transfer pricing advice and represents large taxpayers during tax and transfer pricing audits and disputes with the Canada Revenue Agency, indicates the release.
She serves on the executive of the International Fiscal Association’s Canadian branch and is an officer of the International Bar Association’s taxes committee.
She is also a professional engineer and in 2015 received the Citizenship Award from the Professional Engineers of Ontario. She serves as the chair of the Governing Council of the University of Toronto.
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