Olson, Edward

Edward Olson, CPA, CA, CIA is a Regional Leader with MNP’s Enterprise Risk Services practice, drawing on more than two decades of Canadian and international experience. Edward has taken on a national role in Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) at MNP across all industries and clientele. This includes presenting at several conferences on ESG nationally and globally, as well as writing thought leadership and blogs for this topic for many different industry sectors. His experience includes evaluating the implications and impacts of greenhouse gas reductions and the need of clientele to identify the existence of carbon credits for potential sale or offset as part of sustainability strategies. This included establishing management systems to ensure data integrity of new technology platforms, as well as the frameworks required to effectively manage and report on environmental targets and achievements. He also provides enterprise risk management, internal audit, corporate governance, regulatory compliance, and process efficiency audits. He works directly with executive leadership teams, boards, as well as industry regulators. He has deep industry experience in utilities, financial services, education, public sector as well as government and government agencies.

Edward was also a Chief Audit Executive (CAE) leading internal audit and risk management at a Canadian electric power and gas distribution/retail company. This experience gives him the ability to help organizations in all aspects of risk-based internal audit planning, detailed internal audit fieldwork, reporting to executive leadership teams as well as boards of directors, and interacting directly with respective regulators.