Keynote Speakers
STTPA 2025 Keynote Speakers
Take a look at the keynote speakers for the STTPA 2025 Conference to get a sense of the thought leadership and interdisciplinary expertise that defines this year’s event. Their insights are shaping powerful conversations on sustainability, innovation, and inclusive policy-making. These speakers highlight the caliber of dialogue and collaboration you can expect throughout STTPA 2025.
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STTPA 2025 Speakers
Andrew Hoffman
Andrew (Andy) Hoffman is the Holcim (US) Professor of Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan; a position that holds joint appointments in the Stephen M. Ross School of Business and the School for Environment and Sustainability. Hoffman’s academic work uses organizational behavior theories to understand the cultural and institutional aspects of environmental issues for organizations. He has published over one-hundred articles/book chapters and nineteen books, which have been translated into six languages. His most recent book – Business School and the Noble Purpose of the Market: Correcting the Systemic Failures of Shareholder Capitalism (Stanford University Press, 2025) – examines the state of business education today and offers an assessment for reform it to deal with the challenges of the 21st century.
Jacqueline Corbett
Jacqueline Corbett is Professor of Management Information Systems and Director of the Centre for Research and Cocreation in Innovation and Sustainable Indigenous Business (CIADAA) in the Faculty of Business Administration at Université Laval in Quebec City, Canada. She holds a Ph.D. (MIS) from Queen’s University at Kingston, Canada. Jacqueline’s research interests concern the design and use of information systems (IS) to support sustainable development and Indigenous-settler reconciliation. Her research takes a multidisciplinary and multi-method approach to investigate emerging questions surrounding clean energy and the smart grid, smart and sustainable cities, open data ecosystems, persuasive systems, Indigenous knowledge systems, and sustainable business and societal transformation. She has published her work in high-ranking journals, such as Journal of the Association of Information Systems, Journal of Business Ethics, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Information Systems Journal, and the International Journal of Information Management, and Energy Research and Social Science. Jacqueline currently serves as Associate Editor for Communications of the Association for Information Systems and the International Journal of Information Management. She is an active mentor to emerging IS scholars around the world and in 2024 she received the Sandra Slaughter Service Award from the Association of Information Systems.
Jacqueline.corbett@fsa.ulaval.ca
Université Laval
Imre Szeman
Imre Szeman is Director of the Institute for Environment, Conservation, and Sustainability and Professor of Human Geography at the University of Toronto Scarborough. He teaches and conducts research in energy humanities, environmental studies, and social and political philosophy. He is the co-founder of the Petrocultures Research Group and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
