Susannah Pierce
President and Country Chair, Vice President Corporate Relations, Americas at Shell Canada Limited
Susannah has spent the last 20 years of her career at the intersection of environmental, social, governance interests in Canada and abroad.
Her expertise lies in bringing business, governments, communities, indigenous groups and other non-governmental actors together to support the development of energy resources from initial stages of project design through permitting and consultation to investment decision, construction, operations and decommissioning.
In her current role as Shell Canada Limited President and Country Chair she is responsible for integrating and coordinating business investment and operational performance across Shell’s lines of business in Canada including upstream, downstream, integrated gas and new energies, and is accountable for Shell’s overall reputation and stakeholder relations in the country.
While President and Country Chair, Susannah is also VP, Corporate Relations for the Americas. In this capacity she is responsible for providing strategic insight, leveraging country and
regional perspectives, managing brand and reputation, strengthening stakeholder relations, delivering advocacy, and acting as a bridge between Shell and the outside world.
Prior to this role, Susannah was Shell Canada VP Emerging Energy Solutions and before that, Director of Corporate Affairs for LNG Canada, a joint venture of Shell, Petronas, Mitsubishi,
PetroChina and Kogas. When the joint venture participants took a Final Investment Decision to build the facility in 2018, it was heralded as the single largest private sector investment in
Canadian history.
Susannah joined the LNG Canada project as a Shell secondee after serving as Vice President, Value Chain Integration, Shell Canada. In this capacity, she was responsible for identifying
new business opportunities across Shell’s multiple businesses in Canada. Prior to this position, Susannah was Vice President, Communications, Upstream International based in The Hague, where she oversaw a diverse communications and government relations team consisting of approximately 200 professionals in Asia, Australia, the Middle East, Africa, Russia/CIS and Europe.
Susannah was previously Head, Government Relations for Shell Canada, where she established the government relations practice to support Shell Canada’s upstream, downstream,
and manufacturing businesses. Prior to joining Shell in 2009, Susannah was Director, Government Affairs for TC Energy based in Washington, DC and New York City, where she was
responsible for driving government policy at federal and state levels in support of TransCanada’s existing power and pipeline interests, as well as new business development activities.
Prior to TC Energy, Susannah worked in the tech sector at MicroStrategy and Accenture as a sales representative and a business analyst for data intelligence and enterprise resource
management systems.
Susannah has served on various for profit and non-profit boards. She is currently on the board of non-profits the Vancouver General Hospital Foundation and the Wilder Institute & Calgary
Zoo. She recently joined the Advisory Board of Catalyst Canada and currently serves as Chair of the Business Council of BC, Co-Chair of Business Council of Canada Working Group on
Climate Change and Energy Transition, co-Chair of the Business Council of Alberta’s Define the Decade and co-Chair of the Canada Chamber of Commerce Western Executive Council.
She also serves on the Asia Business Leaders Advisory Council, the Canadian Global Affairs Institute Advisory Council.
Susannah holds a MA from The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a BA from The George Washington University.
She is the proud mother of two children – Robert and Gabriela.