Dean of the Richard Ivey School of Business

Carol Stephenson, OC is the dean of the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario. She was named to the board of directors of the post-bankruptcy General Motors Co. in July 2009 as a representative of Canada Holdings. She also serves as a director of ING Canada and was formerly a director of the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan.

Ms. Stephenson began her career at Bell Canada in 1973. She rose to a number of executive positions at the company, including Vice President of Bell Canada and President and Chief Operating Officer (Americas) of BCE Media. She then served as Group Vice President, Strategic Guidance and, subsequently, President and CEO of Stentor Resource Centre Inc. (now the Stentor Alliance). She was President and CEO of Lucent Technologies Canada from 1999 to 2003.

She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Toronto in 1973 and successfully completed the Executive Program at the Graduate School of Business Administration, University of California at Berkeley, as well as the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.

The Canadian Women in Communications association named her Woman of the Year in 1995. In 2000, Ryerson University awarded her with an honorary doctorate in engineering. In 2001, she received the acclaimed Woman of Distinction designation from the YWCA, and in 2005, Ms. Stephenson was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Canadian Information Productivity Awards for her contribution in building a competitive telecommunications industry in Canada. Ms. Stephenson has also been named one of Canada’s Top 100 Women.

In 2009, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada “for her contributions to the development of our national telecommunications industry and for implementing innovative changes to business school education in Canada”.