Christy Clark

<p>Christy Clark was the Premier of British Columbia, Canada&rsquo;s third largest province, for over six<br /> years. Throughout her tenure, Ms. Clark demonstrated the strongest performance of any<br /> Canadian Premier for economic growth, fiscal management and job creation.<br /> When she is not traveling to give keynote or panel presentations, Ms. Clark works for as an<br /> advisor to a national Canadian law firm Bennett Jones, where she offers clients insights tied to<br /> her experience in infrastructure, Canada-Asia trade, natural resources, social licence and<br /> indigenous relations.<br /> As Premier, Ms. Clark earned a well-deserved reputation as a consensus builder both within the<br /> Cabinet, and outside it. Her management style was to carefully set out a plan that included hard<br /> goals and deadlines for each Ministry and monitor progress through regular reporting to<br /> Cabinet and Committees which she chaired.<br /> Her legacy is characterized by her determination to plan for future generations. She left<br /> British&nbsp;Columbia with a significantly diversified economy, a greater diversity of markets, a plan<br /> for a new, clean energy supply, billions of dollars of new infrastructure, and a dramatic<br /> reduction in the burden of public debt that will be borne by future generations of British<br /> Columbians.<br /> When she left office, British Columbia had been Canada&rsquo;s economic leader for three years<br /> running&mdash;the first time that has happened since the 1960s. B.C. went from being ninth in job<br /> creation to first among provinces. And, after inheriting a deficit of $1.2 billion, Ms. Clark&rsquo;s<br /> government went on to balance five consecutive budgets. Her last budget included $52 billion<br /> in revenues and boasted a $2.8 billion surplus. When she retired, B.C. was on track to<br /> eliminating its operating debt by 2020&mdash;the first time since 1976. B.C. was also the only<br /> Canadian province with a AAA credit rating.<br /> Ms. Clark retired from political life in 2017 as the longest serving female Premier in Canadian<br /> history and the only woman in Canada ever to be re-elected.</p>