Baljinder Narang, Chair

Baljinder Narang was appointed Board Chair effective October 1, 2023, after serving as a member of the Board since March 2019. Ms. Narang is a retired Occupational Therapist who specialized in Mental Health Services with focus on drug and alcohol counselling. She served as an elected School Trustee, including Board Chair & Vice Chair, at the Burnaby Board of Education for 10 years.

Active in her community, she is Chair for Burnaby Healthier Community Partnership, Founding Director & President for Panjab Digital Library Canada, Trustee for New Vista Society, and Founding President & Board Emeritus for the Sikh Research Institute Canada. In 2022, she was appointed to serve on the Board of Governors at Douglas College.

She trained as an Occupational Therapist at the London School of Occupational Therapy, obtained a Diploma in Alcohol Counselling & Consultation from University of Kent at Canterbury, UK, and holds a Masters in Health Education from Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. She has been a Burnaby resident since 1995.

David Black

David Black is the former President of MoveUP, the union representing 13,000 members in B.C. and Canada in the professional and administrative sector. From 2016-2022 he was also the President of the Canadian Office and Professional Employees Union, a national union representing 34,000 members. He currently consults with unions in the matters of governance and energy issues. Mr. Black is also a member of the Governor-General’s Canadian Leadership Conference, currently serving on the Membership Committee, recruiting participants for the next conference in 2026. He was a Vice-President of the Canadian Labour Congress and a Vice-President of the BC Federation of Labour, and he served as Recording Secretary of the Vancouver and District Labour Council. Previously, Mr. Black served as the President of the REACH Community Health Centre, as a member of the Executive Committee of the United Way of BC, and as a member of the Executive Committee of the Vancouver Foundation. He is a member of the New Westminster Salmonbellies Lacrosse Club Executive and is proud to assist the Salmonbellies in winning their next Mann Cup, Canada’s national senior lacrosse championship. 

Patricia Bood

Patricia Bood is the CEO of Puimac Consulting, a boutique governance consulting firm, with several years of experience as a director, executive, general counsel and corporate secretary. In addition to the BC Passenger Transportation Board, she is a board member of Clean Prosperity and Project Change Foundation.  She was previously on the boards of the Association of Corporate Counsel BC Chapter (Chair) and the private partnership owning the Canada Line transit system in Vancouver. Ms. Bood has more than 25 years of legal, governance and operational experience, including as SVP and General Counsel of British Columbia Investment Management Corp and of Brookfield Renewable where she built large multi-function departments. This included leading the legal, procurement, enterprise risk, compliance, and corporate secretary functions and acting as an executive sponsor of a crisis team and diversity council.  Supplementing her legal training, she has an independent corporate director designation (ICD.D), an environmental, social and governance designation (GCB.D) and courses on artificial intelligence (MIT Executive Education) and Indigenous intercultural awareness (Law Society of BC).  She was called to the bar in B.C., Ontario and Saskatchewan. 

Garland Chow

Garland Chow is Emeritus Associate Professor in the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia. During his 35 years at UBC, he taught and conducted research in the areas of transportation economics and transport-logistics-supply chain management. He was Director of the Bureau of Intelligent Transportation Systems and Freight Security (Sauder) and was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for research supporting safe and secure transportation of goods across borders. Since retirement, he has continued his research in commercial vehicle safety, passenger transportation economics and supply chain management.

Dr. Chow was a member of the Distributive Social Impacts and Risks working group that provided input into the Report of the Advisory Group on the Vehicle of the Future that was released in 2021. He was a Visiting Professor at LCC University (Lithuania) in 2020 and 2023. Dr. Chow was on the Board of Directors and special task forces of the Canadian Supply Chain Management Association until 2016. He served the supply chain profession as an assessor for Global Standard for Professional Competence in Purchasing and Supply for the International Federation of Purchasing and Supply Management. Dr. Chow continues to be a Councillor for the Canadian Transportation Research Forum. Dr. Chow has provided testimony and research before the B.C. Motor Carrier Commission, the B.C. Passenger Transportation Board and the B.C Select Standing Committee on Crown Corporations on Ride Hailing. He is also an Elder for the Vancouver Chinese Presbyterian Church. He holds a Doctor of Business Administration from Indiana University, a Master of Business Administration and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Maryland.

Kyong-ae Kim

Kyong-ae Kim is a retired lawyer who was the CEO and Registrar for the College of Registered Psychiatric Nurses of BC, regulating psychiatric nurses to be safe and ethical. Before that, she worked with Legal Aid BC, managing the province-wide delivery of family and civil legal aid in B.C. She has also worked with the Law Society of BC, the Health Employers' Association, the Office of the Ombudsman and in private legal practice, with a focus on civil litigation and administrative law. Her past community work includes service as a Director for the Vehicle Sales Authority of BC, the Ethics in Action Society, the Twin Rainbows Housing Cooperative and the West Coast Domestic Workers Association (now Migrant Workers Center), which she helped to co-found. She currently sits on the Board of the Association of British Columbia Land Surveyors.

Sophia Redmond

Sophia Redmond currently leads a Management Consulting team at the University of British Columbia, driving enterprise level strategy, innovation, and transformation. She is a strategic leader with nearly two decades of public sector leadership across the transportation, higher education, health care, housing and energy sectors, with expertise in economics, business strategy, governance, finance, strategic planning and organizational transformation. She previously served as a Lead Economist with the BC Ministries of Advanced Education, BC Ministry of Energy, and BC Housing, where she provided economic and financial leadership to inform public policy and strategic investment decisions.

Active in her community, Sophia serves on the Board of Governors at Columbia College and has previously held roles as Treasurer and member of the Board of Directors at the Institute of Public Administration of Canada, and as a Board Member with the University of Victoria’s Economics Alumni Council. She holds an MA in Economics from the University of Victoria, complemented by professional designations in Project Management (PMP), Change Management (Prosci), and Operational Excellence (Lean Six Sigma).