Judith Athaide

Judith Athaide

Board Director
HSBC Bank Canada

Judith Athaide is an accomplished corporate director, entrepreneur, Professional Engineer (P.Eng.), and certified Corporate Director (ICD.D). She brings 30 years of executive and corporate governance experience to board discussions. A proponent of life-long learning and continuous improvement, she has a Bachelor of Commerce degree (Honours), a Masters of Business Administration in Finance, a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering and has been awarded the designation of ICD.D by the Institute of Corporate Directors. She has earned the Nuclear Governance Certificate from the Goizueta School of Business at Emory University and a Certificate in Artificial Intelligence from the MIT Sloan School of Business. She has been an adjunct professor at a number of Canadian universities and is an instructor for the ICD DEP (Institute of Corporate Directors Director Education Program) and an examiner for the ICD’s mock boardroom examinations. Judith is currently serving on the Boards of Computer Modelling Group, HSBC Bank Canada, New Brunswick Power where she is the Board Lead on Enterprise Risk Management, TriSummit Utilities where she chairs the Healthy, Safety & Environment Committee and Sustainable Development Technology Canada. Judith was born in Pakistan and has lived in Bangladesh, India, the US and Canada. This international experience has helped her better understand, and value, diversity of thought and experience. She is very excited to be part of the conversation on Stakeholder Capitalism in Compensation Programs: Finding Balance.