Wren Montgomery

Dr. Wren Montgomery is an Associate Professor of Management and Sustainability and JJ Wettlaufer Faculty Fellow at the Ivey Business School at Western University in London, Ontario. She is also a Faculty Affiliate at the University of Michigan’s Erb Institute for Sustainable Enterprise and a 2024-25 Faculty Fellow at Stanford University. 

Wren grew up on the shores of the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence as a swimmer, sailor, kayaker, and lifeguard and loves being in and on the water. Her academic career has been driven by her love of water and the natural environment. She is known for her award-winning research on the Detroit water shutoffs, the human right to water, and increasing clean water access and affordability challenges. Wren also researches how companies communicate about their environmental activities. Her work on greenwashing (companies who exaggerate their sustainability efforts) has been pivotal in defining greenwash and its tactics and informing global strategies and policies to stop it. 

As a lifelong learner herself, Wren believes it is vital to share and co-create academic research with the public. She is frequently featured in prominent media outlets such as The Globe and Mail, The Guardian, CBC Marketplace and The Current, Bloomberg News and The Washington Post, among many others. Dr. Montgomery also co-founded the Greenwash Action Lab to make her academic research and insights accessible to the public and is working on a new book project with Stanford University Press, Beating the Greenwashers. Wren is honoured to serve as a board member for the Alliance for the Great Lakes and for a Silicon Valley-based water efficiency start-up.  

Language spoken: English