Ms. Hamberg is a partner and National Low Carbon Fuels Lead at Deloitte Canada where she advises on the commercialization of climate technology at industrial scale. She serves clients across all sectors on the evolving clean technology and clean fuels landscape, advancing innovation to market readiness, and how to de-risk and operationalize the introduction of new technology. She is fascinated by the challenge of developing and commercializing the solutions Canada needs for the energy transition, particularly where new markets and new value chains need to be created.

Karen is a clean technology executive with more than 20 years of global experience in the deployment of clean transportation technologies and the policy/regulatory frameworks to enable growth, scale, and market leadership. Prior to Deloitte, she held a range of senior executive positions at Westport Fuel Systems with experience in corporate strategy, market creation and development, product commercialization, external communications, and policy and regulatory affairs.

Appointed to the Government of Canada�s Industry Strategy Council and named chair of the Clean Technology Economic Strategy Table in June 2020, Karen has advised on accelerating the deployment of made-in-Canada cleantech, scaling Canadian companies, and ensuring Canada�s global competitiveness in a net-zero economy.

An active volunteer, she is currently a Director of the Nature Conservancy of Canada, a trustee on the Board of Trustees of the Canadian Museum of Nature, Chair Emeritus of CALSTART in Pasadena, California, and past Chair of the United Way of British Columbia Campaign Cabinet.