Annette Hester is an economist, policy researcher and strategist with decades of experience in public policy, data governance, and energy and environmental affairs. She builds and leads multidisciplinary teams that translate complex data into usable insight for decision-makers. In Canada, she contracted with the Canada Energy Regulator on a data visualization project and helped build the team that later developed BERDI, the most advanced public-sector environmental and socio-economic data extraction system in the country. She has also worked with Natural Resources Canada on digital transformation and contributed to federal data and policy initiatives across several departments. Internationally, she served as senior adviser to the president of Petrobras, focusing on the geopolitics of the energy transition and the strategic use of energy and environmental data. She was previously region head for data governance and policy at Oxford Analytica. Her work spans Canada, Brazil and multilateral institutions across the Americas. She publishes at The Hester View (thehesterview.com).

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