HARRIE VREDENBURG is a Director of Energi Simulation, a scholar of innovation, sustainability and economics in the global energy industry and holds the position of Faculty Professor of Strategy and Sustainability at the University of Calgary’s Haskayne School of Business. He also holds appointments as Research Fellow at the University’s School of Public Policy and as International Research Fellow at Oxford University’s Said Business School in the UK. He previously taught at McGill University in Montreal.

Dr Vredenburg was founding Academic Director of both his university’s MSc in Sustainable Energy Development (10 yrs) and Global Energy Executive MBA (8 yrs). A popular teacher, he lectures in MBA, MSc, MPP, PhD and executive programs and has several times won the MBA Society Top MBA Teacher Award.

Dr Vredenburg was founding board chairman of energy storage startup TERIC Power for 7 years until it was acquired by Idea Well Capital Partners’ Climate Tech Private Equity Fund in 2022. He has been a board member of publicly-traded and private international energy companies for 15 years. There he has championed emissions reduction and social and governance initiatives.