Carol Anne Hilton

Carol Anne Hilton is a Vancouver-based Hesquiaht author and CEO and founder of the Indigenomics movement. She wrote Indigenomics: Taking a Seat at the Economic Table and is the founder and CEO of The Indigenomics Institute and the Global Centre of Indigenomics and most recently the Global Indigenous Technology House.

Early life and education
Hilton is Nuu-chah-nulth of the Hesquiaht nation on Vancouver Island.

She obtained her international master's in business administration from the UK's Hertfordshire University in 2004.

Career
Hilton is an international Indigenous business leader and award winning author of Indigenomics: Taking a Seat at the Economic Table which was shortlisted for a Donner Prize in 2022. The title of the book comes from the #Indigenomics hashtag that she coined on Twitter in 2012. The book builds visibility of Indigenous economic worldview and addresses the common rhetoric and perception of Indigenous peoples  and critiques the "economic displacement" of Indigenous people. Kevin Carmichael writing in the Financial Post calls it a "manifesto" and "revelatory", noting how it "forces non-Indigenous readers to confront shame and embarrassment over the systematic exclusion of founding peoples from the country’s economic life." Carmichael comparers her writing that of Zambian economist Dambisa Moyo. It was published by New Society Publishers.

Hilton is the founder and the CEO of The Indigenomics Institute and  founder of the Global Centre of Indigenomics. She previously served on the Canadian Federal Economic Growth Council.

Carol Anne currently serves as a Director on the McGill University Institute for the Study of Canada, MITACS Research, Earth Charter International, the Value Commission,. Carol Anne previously served as a senior advisor on the Canadian Economic Growth Council as well as on the BC Emerging Economy Taskforce, the BC Digital Supercluster and the BC Indigenous Business and Investment Council. and also the National Canadian Community Economic Development Network. She was also faculty at Simon Fraser University’s Community Economic Development Program and the faculty lead at the Banff Center’s Indigenous Business Program.

Personal life
Hilton lives in Victoria, British Columbia.