Stephen A. Pike

Stephen A. Pike is a Toronto-based partner at Gowling WLG and is co-leader of the firm’s Canadian ESG Advisory Services Practice. Stephen advises Canadian, American and global businesses on corporate law and governance, ESG, transactional, operational and risk management issues. He writes and speaks frequently in Canada and the US on ESG issues including how businesses can address, and mitigate the risks of forcedlabour and child labour in their supply chains. He is co-editor of ESG in the Boardroom: A Guidebook for Directors, a book published by the American Bar Association (ABA) and has hosted the ABA’s Business Law Section “ESG in the Boardroom” podcast series. Stephen is a Certified Corporate Director (ICD.D) and serves on the Board of Directors of the International Commission of Jurists – Canada; is a Co-Chair of the ESG Joint Subcommittee of the Corporate Governance and Federal Regulation of Securities Committees of the Business Law Section of the ABA; and serves on the Finance, Audit and Risk Management Committee of the Canadian Cancer Society. He is a member of the program faculty of both the “ESG, Climate Risk and the Law” Professional Development Certificate Course at Osgoode Hall Law School and the “Managing Legal and Business Risk in the Supply Chain” course.