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Ms Arlene Strom

Formerly Chief Sustainability Officer & General Counsel, Suncor Energy Inc


Arlene Strom recently retired from a 20-year career at Suncor where she was most recently Chief Sustainability Officer and General Counsel.  Before her work at Suncor, Strom practiced corporate and securities law in Calgary, where she laid the foundation for her future leadership roles. In late 2023, she retired from Suncor and spent the following year as a fellow in the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University.

In addition to her corporate career, Arlene is deeply committed to community service. She chairs the Alberta Lieutenant Governor’s Arts Awards Foundation, the Energy Technology Centre Foundation, is a board member of Nature Conservancy Canada and an advisory board member of Portage Energy and the Transition Accelerator.

Strom holds a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration from Trinity Western University, a Master of Arts in Public Policy, and an LLB from the University of British Columbia.

A member of the Board of Directors, The Canadian Ditchley Foundation.

Directors of The Canadian Ditchley Foundation

Participants of the Ditchley Foundation internship programme in 2021

The Ditchley Internship Programme

The Ditchley Internship programme offers over 50 students the opportunity each year to become immersed in the ethos of Ditchley.

Antique chairs and sofas at Ditchley Park

Our Home at Ditchley Park

Ditchley Park is part of the world’s heritage and remains as central to our way of working now as it has ever been. 

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