Denise Hearn
Denise Hearn is an author, researcher, and policy advisor. She is a fellow at the Berggruen Institute with the planetary program where her work focuses on governance frameworks for nature-related data technologies while advancing the emerging field of planetary-data governance research and policy. She is also a senior fellow at the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, a center of Columbia University’s Climate School. Hearn has co-authored two books and her writing has featured in publications including The Financial Times, Bloomberg, and The Globe and Mail. She lives in New York City.
Writers & Books
Award History
2025 - Finalist
Balsillie Prize for Public Policy
forThe Big Fix: How Companies Capture Markets and Harm Canadians
Jury Citation
“The Big Fix is a timely, compelling, and sobering read about the dangers of increasing corporate consolidation across Canada. Denise Hearn and Vass Bednar take a hard and thoughtful look at the impact these large-scale monopolies are having on the lives, choices, and pocketbooks of Canadians, and how it is stifling both competition and innovation within the country’s economy. As power and wealth are ever more tightly controlled by a handful of companies and their families (in the manner of a royal kingdom rather than a parliamentary democracy), The Big Fix offers a compelling call to action to protect Canadian consumers and workers from a system that increasingly puts private profit ahead of public interest.”—2025 Balsillie Prize jury (Samantha Nutt, Taki Sarantakis, and Scott Young)Works Recognized by WT