The 2008 PhD Sustainability Academy was hosted by the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario, in collaboration with the Research Network for Business Sustainability and the oikos Foundation for Economy and Ecology, with financial support from Great-West Life, London Life and Canada Life.

The PhD Sustainability Academy promotes high-impact scholarship in sustainability, with a focus on multidisciplinary thinking and practice. It offers an experientially rich environment to help nurture and advance research and teaching capabilities, and to encourage a broad-based, future-looking dialogue engaging academics, teachers and practicing thought leaders across different domains of sustainability.