Evaleen Jaager Roy

Evaleen Jaager Roy is a Canadian businesswoman.

Early life and education Jaager Roy was born to Estonian immigrant Walter Jaager in Canada. She earned her MBA from Harvard Business School.

Career From 1983 until 1984, Jaager Roy was elected student representative of Simon Fraser University's (SFU) board. After earning her MBA from Harvard University in 1988, Roy accepted a position with General Motors and later Westcoast Transmission Co. She later became a member of SFU's advisory board faculty of business administration from 1993 to 1998. In 2002, Jaager Roy was replaced by Brandt Louie as chair of the board.

On August 20, 2008, Jaager Roy was re-elected to SFU's Foundation Board until August 19, 2011. In 2009, she was honoured with the SFU's Professional Achievement Award. By 2010, Jaager Roy left EA to begin her own advisory business, called Jaager Roy Advisory Inc. The next year, she was named one of the 2011 Influential Women in Business by Vancouver Magazine. She also published her first book "Four Chefs One Garden," which won the Surrey International Writer's Conference 2011 Griffin Award. In 2012, Jaager Roy was honoured with the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal and was named a Trudeau Foundation Mentor in 2013. In 2016, Jaager Roy was the recipient of an honorary degree from SFU. , Jaager Roy sits on the Advisory Council at SFU's Beedie School of Business Jack Austin Centre for Asia Pacific Business Studies.

Personal life Jaager Roy and her former husband, Peter Roy, have one son together.