Guy L.F. Holburn

Guy Holburn is Professor of Business, Economics and Public Policy at the Ivey Business School. His areas of expertise are strategy, corporate governance, stakeholder management, corporate social responsibility and regulation. He has published widely in top peer-reviewed academic journals, including Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Energy Policy, Harvard Business Review, Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, Management Science, Organization Science, Public Choice, Strategic Management Journal, and Strategy Science. He has authored numerous reports on provincial and federal energy policies, and is a regular contributor to local and national media.

Dr. Holburn is the founder and former Director of the Ivey Energy Policy and Management Centre, Canada’s leading university-based centre for applied research on energy sector policy. He is also a board member of the Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability, a member of the Council for Clean and Reliable Energy, and a director of London Hydro, a Canadian utility.

Dr. Holburn has served as an expert consultant and advisor to corporations and governments in Canada and the U.S, including Altalink, BC Hydro, Bell Canada, Bruce Power, Competition Bureau of Canada, Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Government of Nunavut, GlaxoSmithKline, Hydro One, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada, Invenergy, London and St. Thomas Association of Realtors, NextEra, Southwest Ontario Economic Alliance, and Toronto Hydro. He has provided advice on corporate governance, economic impact assessments, merger/acquisition strategy, electricity regulation, pipeline regulation, and regional economic development strategy. He testified as an expert witness on utility regulation and corporate governance issues at the Muskrat Falls Inquiry, and he has also testified in court as an expert witness on business strategy issues in commercial litigation.

Dr. Holburn joined Ivey in 2001 and teaches both degree and executive development programs. Previously, he worked for several years as a management consultant for Bain and Company in England and in South Africa, and for the California Public Utilities Commission. He holds a Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.A. Hons. (First Class) from Cambridge University.