Susan Ferner

Technical Expert, Human Environment

Susan is a human environment technical specialist with more than 35 years of experience in socio-economic impact assessments, social management plans and stakeholder and Indigenous engagement.
Based
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Languages
English, French, Spanish

I enjoy working with communities to understand their concerns and interests in a project and integrating their feedback into project studies and plans.

Susan’s work has taken her to diverse regions across the globe, ranging from Alberta’s prairies and oil sands to the Canadian Arctic, Peruvian Andes and the Zangezur Mountains in Armenia. Specialising in the human environmental sector, she assesses the socio-economic context of projects and their potential impacts on local and regional communities. Her work involves community, stakeholder and Indigenous engagement, with her expertise spanning the mining, energy and oil and gas sectors.

Susan designs and executes public participation programs, engagement plans, local hiring plans, risk assessments, grievance mechanisms and monitoring plans. She has experience in gender-based analysis as an important component in various studies. Susan also has expertise in due diligence audits for social performance, using standards from the World Bank and the International Labour Organisation.

Susan brings strong communication skills to her work, and is fluent in English, French and Spanish. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Calgary, Alberta, and a Master of Arts in International Affairs from Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario. She also has an education diploma from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec.

Country experience:

  • Armenia
  • Bangladesh
  • Brazil
  • Canada
  • Egypt
  • Honduras
  • Indonesia
  • Iraq
  • Jamaica
  • Kenya
  • Peru
  • United states of America