Chair · Vice-Chair · Board Director
Counsel for boards in an age of polycrisis.
For fifty years Satya Brata Das has watched institutions succeed and fail: first as a foreign correspondent, then as a strategist to governments, now as a director. He brings that record to fiduciary oversight, audit, risk and the energy transition, and to the harder job of seeing what comes next.
Vice-Chair, Audit Committee
Department of Canadian Heritage, Government of Canada · Ministerial appointment
Chair, Board of Directors
baüne ecosystem · Healthcare technology · Since 2021
Chair, IEEE P3469
International standard for carbon and environmental-liability accounting · Since 2024
Vice-Chair
Green Powerhouse · European green-transition finance consortium · Since 2022
A personal note
Mission, vision and values, in Satya’s own words.
“I have entered the eighth decade of my life. I mean to spend the years that remain as a mentor to those pursuing better human and planetary outcomes.”
Satya Brata Das
What he brings to a board
Governance discipline, with a long view.
Chair, vice-chair, trustee and director on public, private and philanthropic boards in healthcare technology, energy, cleantech, sustainable infrastructure and public policy. The common thread: independent judgment, applied before events force the issue.
Governance & oversight
Audit committees in Ottawa and at an SEC-reporting company. He asks the awkward question early, when it is still cheap to answer.
- Strategic governance & board leadership
- Corporate governance & fiduciary oversight
- Audit & financial governance
- Risk management & oversight
- Regulatory & policy strategy
Strategy & foresight
A foreign correspondent learns that the future rarely arrives as forecast. Scenario planning turns that lesson into a board discipline.
- Independent strategic counsel
- Strategic foresight, forecasting & scenario planning
- Strategic planning & long-term value creation
- Executive & C-suite advisory
- Strategic research & policy development
Sustainability & finance
He treats sustainability as a matter of risk and capital, not of public relations: from carbon-accounting standards to green-transition finance.
- Sustainability & ESG strategy
- Green transition & decarbonization
- Renewable energy & sustainable infrastructure
- Capital allocation & sustainable finance
- Technology governance & responsible innovation
Global & stakeholder
Nine engagements during the World Economic Forum in Davos; quiet diplomacy between Edmonton, Ottawa and New Delhi. Fluent in English, French and Odia.
- International & cross-border leadership
- Geopolitical & geoeconomic analysis
- Government & public-sector relations
- Stakeholder & institutional engagement
- Cross-cultural negotiation & diplomacy
New · Barlow Books · October 2026
The Manifesto of Hope
A New Social Contract for Our Human Family
Published on the anniversary of Gandhi’s birth, the book draws on his teachings to navigate the climate crisis, conflict, corruption and the breakdown of the post-war order, with a practical path to financing the green transition and economic liberation for the Global South.
“Satya Brata Das is an ambassador of actionable hope. His beautiful and passionate writing lifts us out of the calamities around us and enables us to see and feel the wholeness of humanity.”
Former Senator Douglas Roche
Fifty years of public life
From the press gallery to the boardroom.
1975–2000
Journalist & editorialist
Foreign correspondent and national columnist with Southam (later CanWest). Edmonton Journal editorial board, 1984–96. The first person of colour in the Alberta legislature press gallery.
2001–2021
Co-founder and principal of Cambridge Strategies Inc. Strategy, policy and private diplomacy for governments and enterprises: more than 60 major files, from Alberta’s green future to western economic diversification.
2021–
Independent board director
Stepped back from full-time executive work to serve on public, private and philanthropic boards, and to mentor founders working toward better human and planetary outcomes.
2023–
Chairman & CEO, JP Das Educational Consulting Corporation
The family enterprise founded by his late father, now incorporating Cambridge Strategies Inc.
Thought leadership
Books
Six books across three decades, from dispatches as a foreign correspondent to a new social contract for the century ahead.
- The Manifesto of Hope 2026
- Meeting the Climate Challenge (lead author) 2022
- Us 2019
- Green Oil: Clean Energy for the 21st Century? 2009
- The Best Country: Why Canada Will Lead the Future 2002
- Dispatches from a Borderless World 1999
Recognition
2022
Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal
2005
Alberta Centennial Medal
1999
Alberta Human Rights Award
1996
National Newspaper Awards, Citation of Merit
1987
Nuffield Fellowship, University of Cambridge
Board and advisory inquiries
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