Val Walker leads the Business + Higher Education Roundtable (BHER). As CEO of this member-based not-for-profit organization, she sets BHER’s strategic direction and leads a strong team focused on building...

As Director of Corporate Services for the Business + Higher Education Roundtable (BHER), Jennifer is responsible for leading BHER’s core operations and services. Her primary duties include internal operations, membership...

Matthew McKean is BHER's Chief R&D Officer. In this role, he leads BHER's work-integrated learning program (WIL), COVID Response work, and applied research and development activities. Prior to joining BHER...

As Director of Partnerships & Experiential Learning for the Business + Higher Education Roundtable (BHER), Andrew manages all aspects of research project development and delivery. Andrew joins from the Conference Board...

As Program Manager, Pia manages all partner relationships across a pan-Canadian portfolio leading to the creation of thousands of new work-integrated learning opportunities for post-secondary students. Prior to joining BHER...

As Finance Coordinator, Wen organizes and streamlines BHER's accounts payable, accounts receivable and payroll, maintains finance documentation and records to ensure correctness and promptness of finance deliverables. Wen holds a...

Crystal brings forth a broad range of experiences in education, research, business, and administration, as well as a passion for higher education. Prior to joining BHER, Crystal worked with an...

Maria is a Senior Lead of Research & Development at BHER, and oversees project management and delivery, stakeholder engagement, partnership support, and knowledge mobilization for BHER’s portfolio of work on...

As a Senior Lead of R&D, Steve helps the Business + Higher Education Roundtable’s design, develop and carry out projects. He also supports stakeholder engagement, partnership development, and knowledge mobilization...

As Senior Lead, Research and Development, Carolyn will design, develop, and carry out projects and key initiatives that are core to BHER’s COVID Response and R&D work. Current projects are...

As Associate, Research and Development, Béa will help design, develop, and carry out projects that are core to BHER’s COVID Response and Innovation mandates. She will also support the ongoing program needs...

Nilanee Koneswaran is a recent graduate from the Master of Public Policy Program from the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy. Prior to joining BHER, she interned for...

As the Communications and Knowledge Translation Associate, Solène works collaboratively across the team to create compelling content to engage key stakeholders through knowledge translation strategies. Solène holds a Bachelor of...

As Associate, Canada Comeback Challenge, at the Business + Higher Education Roundtable (BHER), Gabriela works to plan and execute upcoming iterations of the Canada Comeback Challenge. 

Gabriela is a Queen’s...

As an Associate, Alexis works to plan and execute ongoing activities related to Canada
Comeback Challenge. Throughout her career she has also held convening and
communications related positions in the public...

Ankita Verma has joined BHER as a Research and Development Associate and will be working on projects to support COVID-19 recovery in the skills sector.
She has a background in...

As a WIL Grants Administrator & Data Analyst for the Business + Higher Education Roundtable (BHER), Breenda works to develop a data strategy to collect, store, manage and analyze data...

A recent graduate from the Communication Studies program at Concordia, Emily has spent her first degree seeking ways to reshape higher education. With this goal in mind, she created Connect...

As Intern, Research and Development, Tanika will assist with project development and management, stakeholder engagement, product development, and knowledge mobilization.

Tanika is a third year student at Ryerson University. She...

Samantha is a recent graduate of the Bachelor of Commerce Program majoring in Economics from Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, NS. She has previously worked in the higher education space...

Georgia is a recent graduate of Victoria University in the University of Toronto where she earned an Honours Bachelors of Arts in Critical Studies in Equity and Solidarity and Diaspora...

Emily is currently participating in the Queen's Undergraduate Internship Program as Intern, Communications and Research with the Business + Higher Education Roundtable (BHER). During her 12-month internship she will assist...