David Wheeler is President and Vice-Chancellor of Cape Breton University. Cape Breton University is one of ’s newest and most ambitious Universities with a global perspective and a deep commitment to sustainability, aboriginal , science and engineering, cultural and community studies and professional education. A little over half of CBU’s 3300 students are from and just under a third are international in origin. Home to the Shannon School of Business, with its unique MBA in Community Economic Development and the Chair in Aboriginal Business Studies, CBU has a growing national and international reputation in management education for a better world. The University has one of the highest student satisfaction rates in Canada and one of the lowest student to staff ratios. Cape Breton is one of the most beautiful locations to live in Canada and has an internationally renowned culture and welcoming multi-cultural community spirit.

Professionally, Dr Wheeler is an internationally experienced academic and business person with more than two decades of senior executive level involvement in change management and sustainable business practice, research and teaching. Throughout his career David has been requested to provide support to senior management teams in pursuing strategic change. He has particular expertise in service industries and energy and extractive industries. In the last five years, David has focused much of his advisory work in the fields of energy conservation and renewable energy policy in Canada and the UK. He continues to pursue his interests in the role of the private sector in international development which has been built on major projects undertaken for the World Bank, the United Nations Development Program, the Canadian International Development Agency, the Canadian International Development Research Centre and the UK Department for International Development.

David Wheeler’s most recent academic posts were Pro Vice-Chancellor (Sustainability) and Executive Dean of Business at the University of Plymouth, UK (2010-2013), Dean of Management, , Canada (2006-2009) and Director and Erivan K Haub Professor in Business and Sustainability at the Schulich School of Business, , Canada (1999-2006). During David’s tenure, York University was regularly ranked in the top few schools worldwide for its integration of sustainability issues into the business curriculum. In 2010 Dalhousie University Business School was judged by CEO Europe the most innovative in Canada for changes made under David’s leadership. Between 2010 and 2013 the University of Plymouth consistently ranked as one of the top Green Universities in the UK.

David has published more than 80 articles and book chapters in a wide variety of academic journals, books, parliamentary inquiries and popular journals, and has delivered speeches to numerous conferences and events. Top tier journals in which he has published include the British Medical Journal, the Lancet, Energy Policy, Water Research, the Journal of Portfolio Management, the Journal of Business Ethics, Long Range Planning, and the MIT Sloan Management Review.

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