2023 Technical Committee

Anamika Mukherjee is a Partner at BDC Capital’s Sustainability Venture Fund, and a recognized decarbonization and energy transition thought leader in Canada. She serves on investee boards, as well as that of The Academy for Sustainable Innovation.  Prior to venture capital, she was the global head of technology development at Cenovus Energy. Anamika has a uniquely diverse career background that started with engineering design and operations troubleshooting in the energy sector; in 2018-2019, she was Chief of Staff to the Resources of the Future Economic Strategy Table, at Innovation, Science, Economic Development Canada, where she coordinated governments and resource sectors CEOs across Canada to land on policy recommendations to the federal government to boost Canada’s economic and innovation competitiveness. She’s led the Canadian oil and gas industry in various multi-stakeholder, provincial and federal environmental policy negotiations. In 2015, Anamika was recognized with a Young Women in Energy Award for climate change innovation. In 2016, she was recognized by the Alberta Oil Magazine for her efforts to enable oil to be a part of a clean energy future. In 2017, she was featured by Natural Resources Canada's Generation Energy for forging the path to clean energy. In 2018, Anamika received two Deputy Minister’s Awards from Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada for her outstanding contribution to the Economic Strategy Tables.  In 2022, she was featured by the Canada West Foundation as being a thought leader in decarbonization and energy transition.