Joanne Kearney

Joanne Kearney has twenty years of experience advising corporate Canada, with a specific focus on transactional communications, corporate affairs and crisis management across the natural resources and capital markets sector. She has acted as a communications advisor on more than $80 billion of Canada’s largest mergers and acquisitions, shareholder activism mandates, corporate restructurings, mine development projects, operational crises and litigation issues.

 

Joanne is a passionate champion of Canada’s mining industry, seeking out mandates to enhance its reputation as a global leader in responsible mining. Joanne is the strategic driver behind the award- winning This is Mining & This is Mine Life campaigns and the #DisruptMining challenges.

 

Joanne is Vice Chair of the Board of Directors for the UHN Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the 3rd best- ranked hospital in the world. In this capacity, she sits on the Nominating & Governance and Human Resources committees and is a Board Champion for the $200 million Transplant Campaign, in support of the Ajmera Transplant Centre at UHN — North America’s largest organ transplant program. Joanne holds a degree in Political Science from McGill University.