Gordon Giffin

Gordon D.
Giffin is currently Global Vice Chairman & Partner at Dentons US LLP.
He serves as Lead Independent Director at Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. since 2012.
He is Director at Ontario Energy Savings Corp., Canada-US Fulbright Program Foundation, World Affairs Council of Washington DC, Fulcrum Retail Energy LLC, and a Trustee at The Carter Center, Inc., Jimmy Carter Library & Museum, and Jimmy Carter Presidential Center.
He is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Inc., The Trilateral Commission, and McLarty Associates LLC Member-Counselors Board.
Formerly, Mr. Giffin was Chairman of TransAlta Corp.
from 2011 to 2020.
He was Chairman of The National Arts Centre.
He was Director at Bowater, Inc. from 2003 to 2007, Canadian National Railway Co. as Independent Director from 2001 to 2021, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce as Independent Director from 2011 to 2017, Atlantic Trust Co., NA (Massachusetts), Resolute Forest Products, Inc. in 2009, Just Energy Exchange Corp.
and Just Energy Income Fund from 2006 to 2011, Canadian-American Business Council, Inc., Just Energy Group, Inc. as Independent Director from 2013 to 2015, Element Fleet Management Corp.
as Independent Director from 2013 to 2016, ECN Capital Corp.
as Director from 2016 to 2017, and Head-Public Policy & Regulatory Affairs at McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP from 2001 to 2014.
Education includes an undergraduate degree from Duke University conferred in 1971 and a graduate degree from Emory University School of Law conferred in 1974.