Michelle Gallant

Michelle is the Director, Sustainable Business at Scotiabank in Toronto. In this role Michelle is responsible for ESG disclosure across the Bank and implementation of key Sustainable Business programs including Climate Change and Human Rights.

Prior to this role, Michelle spent over a decade working in London, the United Kingdom in a variety of sustainability roles at Barclays and business-led charity Business in the Community. Before her shift into sustainability Michelle had a career in marketing communications, leading communications globally for the youth leadership organization AIESEC International, based in the Netherlands.

Michelle was selected to train with Al Gore to become a Climate Reality Leader in 2016. She holds a Bachelor of Honours degree in Mass Communication and Sociology from Carleton University in Canada, and a Strategic Sustainable Development course at the Blekinge Institute of Technology in Sweden.