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In addition to his work with the University of Chester, Roy Alexander is the Technical Director of the village of Ashton Hayes' "Going Carbon Neutral" project, an initiative that aims to create a sustainable, carbon-neutral community in rural England. Roy's role in the project involves measuring and analyzing individual household and whole-community carbon footprints, as well as supervising the implementation of emission-reducing technologies. Roy Alexander is a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and former Chair of its Biogeography Research Group. Dr. Alexander has published fifteen papers on the subject of sustainable community development and geoecology.
Allan Baker joined the ROM in 1972, and is now Head of the Natural History Department and Senior Curator of Ornithology. He is also cross-appointed as a Professor of Zoology, University of Toronto. Baker's research focuses on the evolution of birds, specifically primitive flightless birds and migratory shorebirds, because both are central to current controversies about the origin of birds.
Tzeporah Berman is one of Canada’s most prominent environmental voices and has been working on environmental issues for over a decade. In her role at ForestEthics she has contributed to successful campaigns to stop logging in a million acres of Chilean native forest, to transform the buying patterns of industry giants Staples and Office Depot and to protect millions of acres of forest in Canada. Ms. Berman was one of the primary negotiators for the Great Bear Rainforest Agreement announced on February 7, 2006 which protected over 5 million acres of ancient rainforest and created an unprecedented alliance between the logging industry, First Nations, the Provincial Government and environmental organizations. Prior to joining ForestEthics as staff, Ms. Berman worked for seven years with Greenpeace International and Greenpeace Canada.
Ms. Berman received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Toronto and her Masters in Environmental Studies from York University. She has made frequent speaking tours in Canada, the United States and Europe on forest and biodiversity protection and the trade and consumption of wood and paper products, as well as more generally on environmental issues and environmental advocacy. She lives on Cortes Island, BC with her husband Christopher Hatch and their two children Forrest and Quinn.
In addition to being the Director of IRIS, Dawn is Associate Professor in Biology at York University, Toronto. Her research into plant-animal interactions has included studies of geese, sheep, moose and deer in forests, grasslands and marshes, in Europe and North America. A trained ecologist, Bazely teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in ecology and evolution. She was recently awarded the Faculty of Pure and Applied Science, York University, Excellence in Teaching Award, and nominated for the York University Senate Teaching Award.
Currently Coordinator of the Program in Emergency Management at York University, David worked for Environment Canada in the area of natural hazards and disasters, and was Principal Investigator of the Canadian Natural Hazards Assessment Project.
Professor Feldberg served for a decade, as Director of the York University Centre for Health Studies. She was the founding Academic Director of the National Network on Environments and Women's Health (NNEWH), a federally funded centre of excellence that involved academic and community partners in analysis of the varied environments that affect women's health.
Peter is a best-selling author and an energy-industry thought leader noted for his keen insights in emerging energy and environmental issues. He recently completed the first studies on energy hedge funds and co-created the Energy Hedge Fund Center, an energy hedge fund directory and newsletter. With over 30 years experience in the global energy industry, Peter has been at the forefront of energy industry change. His experiences and insights have taken him to the leading edge of energy consulting including carbon and emissions trading, renewable energy project finance and venture capital, LNG market developments, coal trading, and hedge funds. He founded Global Change Associates in 1991 to focus on the interplay and convergence of energy and environmental financial markets.
TJ Galda has distinguished himself in the field of film, animation, and video games since the '90's. Most notably, TJ is recognized for being one of the 2006 Autodesk Maya Master Award recipients, as well as having earned a Lifetime Achievement award from the Ontario Government and appearing in McLean's Magazine, by the age of 29. Currently, he is the CG Supervisor for Technicolor Creative Services, the company who brought color to film over 90 years ago. Working out of their North American VFX Headquarters, he helps to guide their visual effects department across multiple feature films.
An expert in his field, is asked to speak at round-table discussions, and has received several notable accolades. His projects have accumulated a total of five Emmy Awards and one Academy Award nomination, as well as countless Annies, VGAs (including Game of the Year) and other awards. For more, go to www.tjgalda.com.
Dr. Joseph MacInnis is a medical doctor and marine conservationist who has been exploring the undersea world for 40 years. The first person to dive under the North Pole, and among the first five to dive to the Titanic, Dr. MacInnis has written ten books and numerous articles for magazines including National Geographic, Scientific American and Wired. For more, go to www.drjoemacinnis.com.
Before beginning his term as Dean of the Rotman School in 1998, Roger was a Director of Monitor Company, a global strategy-consulting firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Roger does research in four primary areas: Canadian Competitiveness, Integrative Thinking, Business Design and Corporate Citizenship. He serves on the boards of Thomson Reuters Corporation, Research in Motion, Hospital for Sick Children, Skoll Foundation, Social Capital Partners and Tennis Canada. In 2007, Business Week named him one of the ten most influential business school professors in the world.
Professor Reeve, chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, is the inaugural Frank Dottori Chair in Pulp and Paper Engineering. Former founding director of U of T's Pulp and Paper Centre, Reeve is an expert in pulp and paper engineering. In 1998, Dr. Reeve received an honorary Doctor of Technology degree from the Helsinki University of Technology.
Professor Robért, MD, PhD, one of Sweden's foremost cancer scientists is the founder of The Natural Step (TNS), an international NGO that promotes a scientific consensus approach for social, ecological and economic sustainability. Founded in 1989, the TNS network of scientists have developed a scientifically based framework for strategic planning towards sustainability, and applied it to coach a growing number of role models among organizations and key decision makers, providing forums and tools to share best practices. Dr. Robért has served on faculties of many prestigious hospitals and universities. He won the Green Cross Award for International Leadership, the Blue Planet Prize, which is the "Nobel Prize" for ecological sustainability, sponsored by the Asahi Glass Foundation and was awarded The Social Responsibility Laureate Medal award by the Global Center for Leadership & Business Ethics.
In January 2005, Ted and his research team reported in the journal Nature Materials that a paintable infrared sensing material in his lab could convert infrared light into electricity. Ted Sargent holds the Canada Research Chair in Nanotechnology at the University of Toronto. His book The Dance of Molecules: How Nanotechnology is Changing Our Lives (Penguin) was released in October 2005. Since 2004, he has been Visiting Professor of Nanotechnology and Photonics in the Microphotonics Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In 2003, Sargent was named one of the world's top young innovators by MIT's Technology Review, and in 2002, he was honoured by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research as one of Canada's top 20 researchers under age 40.
Dr. Smith is the founding Dean of Science at Ontario's newest university, the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. Prior to 2003, he was a Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the School of Engineering at the University of Guelph, and at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is a researcher in computational physics, applied mathematics, and chemical engineering, and has received a teaching award for the innovative use of computing technology in university education.
Cindy joined Noranda Inc. in 1989 and has spent most of her career involved in the metals recycling business. She has been involved in waste/recycling issues from a commercial perspective and from a regulatory/policy perspective at both the international level (UN and OECD) and the domestic level. Most recently she has been involved in the start up of Canada's first 100% end of life electronics recycling facility in Brampton, Ontario.
Dr. Wackernagel developed, with William Rees, the Ecological Footprint - a widely-used measure of sustainability. He is founder and Executive Director of Global Footprint Network and co-author of Our Ecological Footprint, Sharing Nature's Interest, and WWF's Living Planet Report. He has advised governments, companies, and civil society organizations on six continents on the possibility of living well, within the limits of one finite planet.
Dr. White is an infrastructure planner and former Director of the Institute of Environmental Studies at the University of Toronto. He co-chaired an industry/university research group that produced a report titled "Coping with Natural Hazards in Canada: Scientific, Government and Insurance Industry Perspectives." He was Principal Investigator for the GIS-based Soil Erosion Management Project in North China and P.I. for the Toronto component of the Sustainable Water Management Project in the Beijing-Tianjin Region, both funded by CIDA. As an Associate Fellow of the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford, he offered a graduate course on The Financial Services Sector and Environmental Change.
Norman's work focuses on the direct and indirect effects of multiple anthropogenic stressors (e.g. pollutants, non-indigenous species, climate change) on the ecosystems of northern lakes, and on factors regulating the recovery of lakes from historical damage. He works in a formal partnership with the Ontario Ministry of the Environment, a previous employer of 25 years, and his body of applied research has garnered both provincial and national awards.