Susanna Laaksonen-Craig

Deputy Minister, Ministry of Energy and Resources at Government of Saskatchewan

Speaker

Dr. Susanna Laaksonen-Craig has served as Deputy Minister of Saskatchewan Ministry of Energy and Resources since March 2021. Prior to joining the Ministry of Energy and Resources, Dr. Laaksonen-Craig held the position of Director General for the Natural Resource Council of Canada’s (NRC) Energy, Mining and Environment Research Centre. Before joining the NRC in 2018, Dr. Laaksonen-Craig was the Assistant Deputy Minister for the Government of British Columbia’s Climate Action Secretariat in the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy. Dr. Laaksonen-Craig also worked as an assistant professor at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Forestry and has been an Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto’s Daniels Faculty’s Forestry since 2007. Dr. Laaksonen-Craig holds a master’s degree in Forestry from the University of Helsinki and a PhD in Wildland Resource Science from the University of California at Berkeley.