Amanda Davis runs her own management consulting firm providing strategic governance and executive services within public and private sectors in Canada. Davis specializes in municipal restructuring to resolve local resiliency challenges, leading public infrastructure projects, and contract negotiations. She is a solutions-oriented thinker who prioritizes interdisciplinary collaboration.

Her research is tied to the advancement of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals 9 and 11 to build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization, as well as to foster innovation that makes human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable.

Davis’ doctoral research will investigate how sustainable development concepts of a circular economies and regenerative sustainability can be applied to civil infrastructure to support the resiliency of small urban and rural communities in Canada. Her work will contribute to the advancement of emerging theories of circular and regenerative development.

She holds a Master of Business Administration from Royal Roads University with a specialization in Management Consulting (2018); a certificate in Negotiation Mastery from Harvard Business School (2021) and various other certificates from the University of Alberta, and the Alberta School of Business that include Executive Leadership (2016), Applied Land Use Planning (2016), National Advanced Certificate in Local Authorities Administration Level 1 and 2 (2015). She is a Certified Local Government Manager.