Andrew Kendall
St. Francis Xavier University
Andrew Kendall has been Manager of the Industry Liaison and Knowledge Transfer Office for St. Francis Xavier University since 2004. His career was launched with a degree in geology from Dalhousie University and land use planning from the College of Geographic Sciences, and he spent 5 years working as a well-site geologist at various oil and gas drilling exploration sites around the world. He then moved into environmental and oil and gas regulatory affairs with the provincial government and industry.
At St FX, Andrew is responsible for all aspects of industry – academic collaboration on applied research to solve industry research needs, ranging from greenhouse gas mitigation in oil and gas projects, to extending shelf life of prepared value-added foods, to artificial intelligence software in web-based marketing. (Research Office website here)