Ann Svendsen is currently a senior partner with CoreRelation Consulting in Vancouver, Canada, where her clients include resource and utility companies, regional and provincial governments, and financial institutions. For the past twenty years, Svendsen has worked as a consulting sociologist, helping companies and government agencies identify, understand, and work effectively with their internal and external stakeholders. She is the author of The Stakeholder Strategy and has been an adjunct professor at Boston College Centre for Community Relations, Australia Centre for Corporate Citizenship and Simon Fraser University's Centre for Sustainable Community Development.