Anne Johnson is an Assistant Professor in the Robert M. Buchan Department of Mining and Director of the Graduate Diploma program in Social Performance Management at Queen’s University. She holds undergraduate degrees in Art History and Computing and Information Science, Master’s degrees in Education and Policy Studies, and a PhD in Mining Engineering. Her interests in social justice, environmental stewardship and how engineering students develop the skills and values associated with sustainability led her to mining – a critical industry (that is fascinating in its interdisciplinarity!) where these concerns must be managed.

Supporting her Department’s vision of “developing exceptional engineers and scholars for a sustainable global society,” Anne’s teaching focuses on education for praxis, that is, engineering and policy practice that is driven by values: those of stewardship, justice, and Reconciliation. Her research explores the values that shape discipline choice and examines compliance and policy tools for the development of promoting stewardship and social responsibility.

Teaches Resource Life Cycle, Sustainability 

Heather Jamieson grew up in Noranda, Quebec and is now a Professor in the Department of Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering at Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada. She also holds an appointment and teaches courses in the School of Environmental Studies at Queen’s. Her expertise is in the area of environmental geochemistry, particularly the mineralogical controls on the mobility of metals and metalloids (notably arsenic) in mine waste and the application of synchrotron-based X-ray experiments and other microanalytical methods to metal speciation in mine tailings, soils, sediments and household dust.

Much of her fieldwork is in the Canadian Arctic but she has also conducted research in Nova Scotia, California, Montana, Spain and Australia. Heather has supervised multiple Master’s and Ph.D. students and has delivered online training in mine waste geochemistry.

Teaches Resource Life Cycle Overview - Minerals and the Mineral Life Cycle 

Joyce is a designer who believes we can change ourselves, our organizations, and our cities by design. She worked in enterprise software for over 20 years and introduced the practice of design to three enterprise software companies. Expanding her design practice outward from technology focused user experiences to business focused employee and customer experiences taught her about the importance of focusing on value, the language of business, and organizational change. Joyce is an adjunct professor at Queen's University and occasionally coaches organizations interested in building the internal design capabilities required to innovate employee, customer, citizen, or patient experiences. She is currently exploring how we might use transformation design to rewild our cities - rethinking how we live and work in urban landscape.

Teaches Design for Earth 

Dr. Detomasi is a Professor & Distinguished Teaching Fellow of International Business. He completed his PhD from the Department of Political Studies at Queen's University in 1999, specializing in international political economy. He also holds a Master of Arts in War Studies from the Royal Military College of Canada, a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from Queen's University, and is a graduate of the Executive Program on the Global Financial System from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. 

Dr. Detomasi's research interests include globalization, geopolitics, and corporate and non-profit governance. His book, Profits, Power and Petroleum: Navigating the Economics, Politics, and Geopolitics of Oil, will be published by the University of Toronto Press in 2022.

He teaches courses on strategy, governance, and the geopolitics of global competition in undergraduate, MBA, and executive education programs at the Smith School of Business and has taught programs in Canada, Europe, and the United Arab Emirates. He has served as Academic Director for Global Business at Queen’s Executive Development Centre. He has also served for a five-year term as academic director for the Fundamentals of Governance Program, Queen’s Executive Development Centre, and has served as Vice-Chair of the Queen’s University Senate.   

His scholarly research has appeared in such journals as Journal of Business Ethics, International Studies Review, Global Governance, Defence Analysis, and the Canadian Review of American Studies, and he has authored numerous teaching cases and practitioner notes. Dr. Detomasi is also a regular contributor to the media: recent interviews he has given and opinion pieces he has written have appeared in The Toronto Star and The Globe and Mail, and on CBC’s Cross Country Checkup, and has contributed opinion pieces on the global economy to The Globe and Mail and PriceWaterhouseCoopers.   

In the private sector, Dr. Detomasi has consulted on global business practices, competitiveness, strategy, and governance issues with Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu and the World Economic Forum. Other previous clients have included the International Association of Plastic Distributors, the Energy Resources Conservation Board (ERCB) of Alberta, Nexen, Inc., the Ontario Public Service, the Frontenac Mortgage Investment Corporation, the Mortgage Investment Corporation of Eastern Ontario, the Mubadala Investment Group (Abu Dhabi)  the Kingston Frontenac Lennox and Addington County Public Health Unit, TransX Group of Companies, Royal Building Products Inc., the Provincial Valuation Services Corporation of Nova Scotia, and PowerStream Inc, The Calgary Stampede, and numerous other clients.

Teaches Strategic Leadership