Dana Hayden
Biography
Dana is Chair of the Board of Partnerships B.C. and a Director on the Boards of TimberWest and Mosaic Forest Management where she also chairs the Safety, Health & Stewardship Committees. She is a Director on the Capital Regional District Core Area Wastewater Treatment Project Board, and a Director of the BC Parks Foundation. Dana also serves on the SFU Beedie School of Business Advisory Committee, the Fraser Basin Council Sustainability Solutions Fund Advisory Committee, and the Institute of Corporate Directors Victoria Executive.
Dana provides consulting services to a variety of public and private corporations related to strategic and business planning, natural resource development, social license, government processes, public infrastructure development and governance.
Dana served in the British Columbia public sector for 30 years during which she held 6 Deputy Minister positions in natural resource and economic portfolios and was also President & CEO of the BC Pavilion Corporation, Destination BC and the BC Lottery Corporation.
Dana has a B.Sc. in Forest Science, a M.Sc. in Natural Resource Economics, and is a Chartered Director (C. Dir). Dana was inducted into Canada's 100 Most Powerful Women Hall of Fame in 2016, is a Diversity 50 awardee, and received the Vancouver Influential Women in Business award in 2014.