Charlotte Mitha is the Executive Vice President of BC Hydro’s Operations Business Group. In her executive role at BC Hydro, Charlotte and her team are responsible for the employees that operate and maintain the systems and assets needed to generate and deliver electricity safely and reliably to BC Hydro’s customers. In total, Charlotte, is accountable for approximately 2,600 employees and $300M in annual operating and maintenance expenditures.

Charlotte is a mechanical engineer with 25 years of experience in the energy sector and 14 years of experience with BC Hydro. Charlotte moved into her current position from her previous role of Director of Distribution Design and Customer connections, and also led all of Operations’ Work Management projects for 6 months. She has also held positions as Manager of Non-Integrated Areas (NIA) and Strategic Emergency Management (SEM). Her technical experience includes a background in Generation as a mechanical design and construction engineer and in Distribution Operations for Line Field Operations and Design. While with NIA, she was responsible for line and stations operations, engineering, community and indigenous relations, management of IPP’s and new power procurement opportunities and Remote Community Electrification (RCE).

Charlotte is a Professional Engineer in mechanical engineering (Bachelor of Applied Science, UBC, 1992) and has a Master of Business Administration from Royal Holloway College, University of London (2005).