23rd Annual Deans and Directors Meeting

Justin is a full-time lecturer at the Sauder School of Business, where he also leads the Sustainability and Ethics Group. He is the academic director of the Masters of Engineering Leadership and Masters of Health Leadership and Policy in the Faculty of Applied Science at UBC. Economic reconciliation is a major area of his work, and he is a committed board member supporting the Tla’amin First Nation and Nak'azdli First Nation with their economic development strategies. Justin volunteers as a moderator with CDL-Vancouver (a venture incubator) and as advisor to AdvantageBC (a non-profit focused on financing climate innovation). He completed his undergraduate and doctoral work at UBC, and is proud to be the third generation of his family to matriculate here.

Mahesh is the Senior Associate Dean for Research and the Academic Director of RHL. He holds the chair for the alumni professor of stochastic optimization. Mahesh is an applied mathematician whose main research is in the theory of stochastic optimization and cooperative game theory. His applied research uses tools form high dimensional statistics and optimization. He has worked widely with health care agencies and hospitals in Canada and the US and across many industries such as airlines, services and hospitality.

Jennifer is an Associate Professor of Food, Nutrition and Health in the Faculty of Land and Food Systems where she leads the Public Health and Urban Nutrition Research Group. Her research aims to improve understanding of the complex social and contextual factors that shape the health of individuals, communities and of the environment, with a focus on neighbourhood food environments, school health, and food systems research.