Mary (Margaret)​ Bateman

Ms. Mary (Margaret) Bateman is a member of EPCOR’s Board of Directors, and is a past CEO and senior partner of Calder Bateman Communications – a firm she co-founded in 1990, which merged with Calgary-based ZGM Modern Marketing Partners in 2018.

Ms. Bateman holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Loyola College, now part of Concordia University, and was formerly the Managing Director of the Government of Alberta’s Public Affairs Bureau, and Vice-President of Alberta Housing Corporation.

For more than 40 years, she has provided strategic counsel and planning expertise to public and private sector clients engaged in a range of public policy issues and has led complex multi-stakeholder engagements on behalf of governments at all levels.

Ms. Bateman currently serves on the board of Edmonton’s 2001 Legacy Foundation. She previously served as Board Chair of Edmonton Airports, during which time they financed a billion-dollar expansion through capital markets and negotiated the closure of the city's municipal airport. She is also a past member of the Board of Governors of Augustana University College (now part of the University of Alberta), and past board member of Alberta Blue Cross Corporation.