Celesa Horvath

Celesa Horvath is owner and principal consultant with Ventus Development Services Inc., providing strategic consulting services in Environmental / Impact Assessment (IA), Regulatory Affairs, Corporate Responsibility, and Sustainable Development. Ms. Horvath has been involved in federal, provincial, and territorial IA and regulatory processes across Canada (and internationally) for 34 years, guiding public and private sector proponents through the often-complex interplay of legal requirements, stakeholder and participant expectations, practical challenges of science and consultation, resourcing constraints, and other factors to build robust strategies and defensible documentation that will stand up to intense public and legal scrutiny.

Ms. Horvath brings unique strategic insight to bear for clients navigating IA and regulatory processes in Canada. Always keeping the big picture in view, and with each client’s objectives in mind, she anticipates issues and risks and works collaboratively to lay a solid foundation for success. Ms. Horvath is particularly skilled at bridging and integrating diverse disciplines to scope technical and strategic work to not only meet legal requirements but to anticipate and manage risk and leverage opportunity to best position a client’s project for success.

Ms. Horvath has managed every aspect of the IA process, from initial planning and scoping through submission and regulatory liaison, stakeholder consultation, Indigenous engagement, coordination of engineering and other disciplines, mitigation and follow-up program development, and permitting. She is one of Canada’s leading experts in IA methods.

Ms. Horvath is also a leading advocate of and executive advisor related to corporate responsibility and sustainability in Canada, acknowledged by her inclusion in Canada’s Clean50 (www.clean50.ca).