Carolyn DuBois is the Gordon Foundation’s new President and CEO, following the retirement of Sherry Campbell.

Carolyn has been with the Foundation since 2012 and has demonstrated strong leadership and a deep commitment to the organization and its mission. Most recently, she was Executive Director of the Foundation’s Water Program. In this position she led DataStream, Canada’s leading open access platform for sharing water data.

As President and CEO, Carolyn will lead the Gordon Foundation’s programs and operations. A new Executive Director of DataStream will soon be announced.

An established leader in Canada’s water sector, Carolyn has dedicated her career to ensuring communities have opportunities to shape the decisions that affect them.  Early in her career, she focused on environmental justice issues within marine fisheries in Africa.

After joining the Foundation, Carolyn led programming to raise the profile of water issues in Canada’s Mackenzie Basin. This work focused on driving better freshwater stewardship through community engagement and the use of the best available evidence. As part of this work, she embarked on an ambitious mission – to make freshwater data collected through the Basin openly accessible to inform decision-making at all levels.

The result is DataStream, which launched as a regional pilot in the Mackenzie River Basin in 2016 in partnership with the Government of the Northwest Territories. Under Carolyn’s leadership, DataStream has grown across the country to Atlantic Canada, the Lake Winnipeg basin, the Great Lakes region, and this year, to the Pacific region covering British Columbia and the Yukon.

This work has dramatically improved access to water quality data in Canada and supported education and networking among hundreds of organizations. DataStream’s platform currently holds millions of open data points shared by a growing community of over 250 organizations.

A dynamic and polished communicator, Carolyn builds partnerships across the public, private, Indigenous, and not-for-profit sectors. Carolyn is a trusted voice in conversations about the future of freshwater management in Canada and how open data can address environmental challenges. Often invited to appear on panels and at events, Carolyn is a member of the International Joint Commission Great Lakes Water Quality Board.

Named as one of the Peak’s 2023 Emerging Leaders in the Social Impact category and a Globe and Mail Report on Business Changemaker in 2022, Carolyn is regularly called upon to appear as an expert panelist.

Carolyn holds a BSc in Biology from Mount Allison University and a Master’s in Environmental Management from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.