The Honourable Donna Cansfield
Minister of Natural Resources

 

Donna Cansfield was elected as MPP for Etobicoke Centre in 2003 and re-elected in 2007. In 2005, she was appointed Minister of Energy where she was instrumental in implementing the government’s energy plan to build cleaner generation capacity, maximize Ontario’s existing generation and transmission assets and create a culture of conservation. Cansfield also introduced Bill 21, the Energy Conservation Responsibility Act, which was passed by the legislature in February 2006.

In 2006, Cansfield was appointed Minister of Transportation. She brought forward the “one person, one seatbelt” legislation and the Safer Roads for a Safer Ontario Act, which set new standards for road safety, with some of the toughest sanctions in Canada to target drinking and driving, stunt driving, and street racing. In May 2007, Cansfield held the first sustainable transportation conference, TransForum, to help create a transportation system that supports the needs of today while protecting our environment for future generations.

Cansfield is a tireless contributor to services for communities, families and, in particular, children. Cansfield was a school trustee for 15 years. She was a member of the Etobicoke School Board and chair of the Toronto District School Board, president of the Ontario Public School Boards’ Association, and vice-chair of the Toronto Foundation for Student Success. She also has national experience through her work as a board member for Learning for a Sustainable Future, director of Prime Mentors of Canada and as a past president of the Canadian School Board Association.

Representing a riding with Canada’s largest proportion of senior citizens, Cansfield has served as a director of a hospice and has been active in other health care efforts. She has continued to work with her constituents to recognize key social goals and formed partnerships to achieve them. Cansfield lives in Etobicoke with her husband Bill. They have two children, Jennie and D’Arcy, who live and work in Ontario.
 

 

Cara Clairman
Vice President, Sustainable Development,
Ontario Power Generation Inc. (OPG)

 

Cara Clairman's current responsibilities include the oversight of environmental performance across the business as well as the development and implementation of OPG’s sustainable development policies and programs. Cara joined OPG in December 1999 as an environmental lawyer. In this position she provided legal advice to the corporation on a wide range of environmental matters including compliance with environmental laws, environmental assessments, and the environmental implications of purchase and sale transactions.
 
She also held the positions of Assistant General Counsel and Acting General Counsel for the Corporation before taking on her current role. Prior to joining OPG, Cara spent five years practicing environmental law with the Torys law firm. She holds a Bachelor of Laws from Osgoode Hall and a Masters in Environmental Studies from York University, as well as an Honours Bachelor of Science degree from Queen’s University. She is also certified by the Law Society as a specialist in environmental law.
 
Last but not least, she is married with two children, ages ten and four, who make sure that she never takes herself too seriously.
 

 

Milt Clark, Ph.D.
Senior Health and Science Advisor,
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

 

Dr. Milton Clark is Senior Health and Science Advisor for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Chicago. He is also a Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences at the University of Illinois School of Public Health. He received undergraduate degrees in chemistry and biochemistry and a doctorate in environmental science from the University of Kansas.

In his 25 year career at EPA, Dr. Clark has led efforts to evaluate and solve some of most challenging environmental problems in the Great Lakes region including the cleanup of Waukegan Harbor, Illinois (contaminated with PCBs), pesticide (methyl parathion) contamination of thousands of residential properties throughout the U.S., and PCB contamination of rivers, including the Fox River, the largest sediment site in the U.S. He is the recipient of three national EPA gold medals for excellence in environmental protection. Dr. Clark is the author of over 100 technical reports and publications dealing with human health risk assessment. He is often involved in developing risk communication messages for U.S. EPA and frequently lectures on environmental topics ranging from mercury pollution in the Great Lakes region to global warming. He is a member of the International Joint Commission Science Advisory Board and he is on the editorial board of the journal, Human and Ecological Risk Assessment.
 

 

Murray J. Elston
President and CEO, Canadian Nuclear Association

 

Murray J. Elston was appointed President of the Canadian Nuclear Association on January 5, 2004, having served as President of Canada’s Research-Based Pharmaceutical Companies since November 1, 1998.

From January to October 1998, he was a member of the Energreen Solutions Group and, from 1994 to 1997, served as President of the Ontario Interlink Industrial Park.

From 1981 to 1994, Mr. Elston was a member of the Ontario legislature, where he held a number of positions, including Minister of Health, Chairman of the Management Board, Minister of Financial Institutions and Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee.

Mr. Elston is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario and holds bachelor’s degrees in arts and in law. Prior to his election to the Ontario legislature, he practised law in Bruce County, Ontario.

Mr. Elston is Chair of the Walkerton Clean Water Centre and Canadian Nurses Foundation. He is also Past Chair of the Board of Directors of the University of Ottawa Institute of Mental Health Research and Energy Dialogue Group. He serves on the boards of the Canadian Centre for Energy Information and Hydro One.

The Canadian Nuclear Association is a non-profit organization established in 1960 to represent the nuclear industry in Canada and promote the development and growth of nuclear technologies for peaceful purposes. Nuclear energy generates over 15 per cent of Canada's electricity and 54 % of Ontario's electricity with virtually no air emissions. It employs over 20,000 people directly and another 10,000 indirectly in industry, government and other organizations involved in the nuclear field – including in uranium milling, mining and processing; developing and operating nuclear power plants and facilities; nuclear medicine; aerospace; automotive research; manufacturing; engineering; consulting; and education.
 

 

Rick Findlay
Director of the Water Programme and Director of the Ottawa
office of Pollution Probe

 

Rick Findlay is Director of the Water Programme and Director of the Ottawa office of Pollution Probe, one of Canada's most respected environmental groups. Rick joined Pollution Probe in 1998 after serving for six years as Chief of the Climate Change team with Environment Canada.

His position previous to that was Director of the Ontario Round Table on Environment and
Economy, where Rick developed a deep respect for the principles of sustainable development and a commitment to implementing approaches for achieving it. Rick's main task at Pollution Probe is to develop and manage a long-term, comprehensive water programme. The New Approach to Water Management programme is currently being implemented with several policy-based components including drinking water with a particular focus on watershed based source water protection and an emphasis on the Great Lakes.

Rick has 30 years of experience in business, government and institutional positions, and now the non-government sector. His experience ranges from project engineering to policy development. He has had Canada-U.S. Great Lakes experience as Niagara River Coordinator for Environment Canada, during the days of Love Canal and Hyde Park in the 1980's and he helped negotiate the four-jurisdiction Niagara River clean-up agreement of 1987. Rick's career began as a project engineer working on water and wastewater treatment projects for a Canadian company.
 

 

Peter Frise
Scientific Director & CEO, AUTO21
Professor of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering and Executive Director of Automotive Research and Studies

 

Dr. Peter Frise holds degrees in mechanical engineering from Queen’s University in Kingston and Carleton University in Ottawa. He began his industrial career as an oil well wireline data logging engineer working for Schlumberger Wireline Services in Nigeria. He then moved to Husky Injection Molding Systems in Bolton, Ontario as an R&D engineer and later as a design group leader.

In 1985 he joined Carleton University and beginning in 1988, he taught mechanical design there until moving to Windsor where he was instrumental in founding Canada’s first university level education in Automotive Engineering in 1998.

Dr. Frise works with a number of automotive companies in his present capacity as the Scientific Director and CEO of AUTO21, a federal Network of Centres of Excellence (NCE). AUTO21 is Canada’s largest research network and brings together over 260 researchers from 40 institutions working with more than 520 graduate students in partnership with over 120 industry and public sector companies and organizations. The Network’s research program is presently valued at over $11.5M annually distributed among 41 projects in health and safety, societal issues, materials and manufacturing, powertrains, fuels and emissions, design processes and intelligent systems and sensors. Since 2001, AUTO21 has carried out more than $51M worth of research of which over $27M was directly supported by partner organizations.

In 2006, Dr. Frise was appointed to the National Research Council of Canada. The NRC is a leader in the development of an innovative, knowledge-based economy for Canada through science and technology. He also serves on the boards of the Yves Landry Foundation which is dedicated to enhancing technological education across Canada, the Council for Automotive Human Resources, the Stronach Centre for Innovation, the Georgian College – IRDI Advisory Committee and is active on several sub-committees of the Canadian Automotive Partnership Council (CAPC).

Previously, his volunteer service has included eight years on the Governing Council of the Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario as a Lieutenant Governor-in-Council Appointee and two years on the Council of the Association of Professional Geoscientists of Ontario as a lay-member.

Dr. Frise was elected a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering in 2000 in recognition of his professional contributions and in May 2001 he was elected Windsor and Essex County “Engineer of the Year” by the local chapter of Professional Engineers Ontario. In 2007 he received the Research and Development Medal from the Ontario Society of Professional Engineers.

He lives with his wife and three daughters in Windsor, Ontario.
 

 

The Honourable John Gerretsen
Minister of the Environment

 

John Gerretsen was first elected in 1995 in the Riding of Kingston and the Islands, and was re-elected in 1999, 2003 and 2007.

As Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, he was responsible for the Greenbelt Plan to permanently protect 1.8 million acres around the Greater Golden Horseshoe, the Strong Communities (Planning Amendment) Act, 2004 and the Planning and Conservation Land Statute Law Amendment Act, 2006 that reformed land-use planning in the province and the Ontario Municipal Board.

He was also responsible for the Residential Tenancies Act, 2006 that provides more balanced protection for tenants and landlords and he oversaw Ontario’s new $600 million affordable housing program.

Mr. Gerretsen also introduced the Stronger City of Toronto for a Stronger Ontario Act, 2006 that has provided Ontario’s capital city with new tools to help it thrive in a global marketplace and the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System Act, 2006 giving municipal employees and their employers control over their pension plan. He has also overseen recent reforms to the Municipal Act, 2001 providing broad new powers and significant legislative freedoms to municipalities.

He has volunteered as a member of Kingcole Homes, Big Brothers, Rotary Club of Kingston and Almost Home, and chair of the South Eastern Ontario Emergency Health Services Committee. He has also been a trustee of Queen's University. Among his many activities for charitable non-profit groups, he has chaired the BEDS Campaign for the Hotel Dieu Hospital and the Salvation Army Red Shield Campaign.

A graduate of Queen's University, Mr. Gerretsen has practised law in Kingston since 1971. He and his wife, Assunta, have three grown children, Michelle, Mark and Paul.
 

 

After receiving his B.A. in Political Science from Carleton University, he began graduate work in Political Science at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he studied international relations, defence and arms control policy, and conflict theory. He also read widely in artificial intelligence, philosophy of mind and language, and environmental science. After completing his Ph.D., he moved to the University of Toronto and, in the subsequent eight years, led several international research projects examining the links between environmental stress and violence in developing countries.

Recently, his research has focused on threats to global security in the 21st century and on how societies adapt to complex economic, ecological and technological change. His work is highly interdisciplinary, drawing on political science, economics, environmental studies, geography, cognitive science, social psychology and complex systems theory.

His books include The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization (to be published in October 2006); The Ingenuity Gap, which won the 2001 Governor General's Nonfiction Award; Environment, Scarcity, and Violence; and Ecoviolence: Links Among Environment, Population, and Security.

Homer-Dixon has been invited to speak about his research around the world, including Yale, Harvard, MIT, Oxford, the World Economic Forum in Davos, and the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. Dr. Homer-Dixon's presentations challenge conventional thinking and broaden knowledge and perceptions of people in any type of organization.

Dr. Homer-Dixon was recently appointed CIGI chair of global systems at the upcoming Balsillie School of International Affairs. He is leaving his current post as the director of the Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Toronto.  
 

 

Pavlos S. Kanaroglou
Acting Director, School of Geography and Earth Sciences, McMaster University

 

Pavlos S. Kanaroglou is Professor of Geography at McMaster University and holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Spatial Analysis. His formal education includes degrees in Mathematics (B.Sc), Computer Science (M.Sc) and Geography (M.A, Ph.D). He combines several years of industrial experience with academic teaching and research. Dr. Kanaroglou has held faculty positions at Wilfrid Laurier University, the University of Aegean (Greece) and McMaster University. He is the founder and director of the Centre for Spatial Analysis (CSpA) at McMaster. His research, funded by Canadian councils (NSERC, SSHRC), as well as ministries and municipalities in Canada, focuses on sustainable transportation at the urban and regional level, on urban air quality and on the relationship between air quality and health. He has been the principal investigator and participated in several national and international projects. He has published extensively on transportation issues and is a member of the editorial board for several transportation related journals. Recently, Dr. Kanaroglou spearheaded the establishment of the McMaster Institute for Transportation and Logistics (MITL) that is designed to bring together the private and public sectors with academia for the development of relevant and high quality research in transportation and logistics.
 

 

Bryan W. Karney
Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Toronto

 

Bryan W. Karney, Ph.D., P.Eng., is a Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Toronto, where he has worked since 1987. He is currently chair of the Division of Environmental Engineering and Energy Systems.

Dr. Karney has spoken and written widely on subjects related to water, energy, environment, hydrology, climate change, engineering education and ethics. He was an Associate Editor for the Journal of Hydraulic Engineering for the ASCE from 1993 to 2005 and was one of the top 10 finalists in TVO's "Best Lecturer" competition in 2007. Bryan has published three books as well as over 150 papers and scientific contributions on topics ranging from water hammer, energy system performance, life cycle analysis, hydrology, flows of frazil ice and engineering education.
 

 

Jennifer Keyes
Manager, Renewable Energy Section,
Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources

 

Jennifer has over 8 years in the Ontario Public Service and is currently the Manager, Renewable Energy for the Ministry of Natural Resources. In her role as Manager, Jennifer oversees all provincial policy development to support sustainable use of crown land for the development of renewable energy projects.
 
Prior to joining the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Jennifer held several progressive positions in the Ontario Ministry of the Environment where she was closely involved in responding to Justice O’Connor’s recommendations to the Walkerton Inquiry.
 
Jennifer has been involved in the energy industry for many years prior to joining the provincial government. She was the Manager of Environmental Affairs at the Canadian Gas Association where she was instrumental in launching their environmental research and climate change program.
 
Jennifer holds a Bachelor of Science from Trent University. She currently lives in Lakefield, Ontario.
 

 

Gail Krantzberg
Professor and Director, Dofasco Centre for Engineering and Public Policy, McMaster University

 

Dr. Krantzberg is Professor and Director of the Dofasco Centre for Engineering and Public Policy in the School of Engineering at McMaster University. The Centre offers a Master’s Degree to engineers and applied scientist training them on complex environmental matters and enabling them to understand the application of science and technology to public policy. Gail completed her M.Sc. and Ph.D. at the University of Toronto in the fields of ecology, biology, chemistry and toxicology, contaminant cycling in freshwaters.

She worked for the Ontario Ministry of Environment from 1988 to 2001, as Sediment Specialist, Coordinator of Great Lakes Programs, and Senior Policy Advisor on Great Lakes. She is the past president of the International Association of Great Lakes Research. Dr. Krantzberg was the Director of the Great Lakes Regional Office of the International Joint Commission from 2001 to 2005, after having served on this binational treaty organization’s Boards, Council and Task Forces. She has authored more than 100 scientific and policy articles on issues pertaining to ecosystem quality and sustainability and is a frequent speaker to media and the public.
 

 

Gord Lambert
Vice President, Sustainable Development, Suncor Energy Inc.

 

Gordon Lambert is Vice President, Sustainable Development for Suncor Energy. In this role, Gordon directs Suncor’s environment, health and safety policies and works with senior management and external stakeholders to align and improve the company’s long-term financial, social and environmental performance. He is involved with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development in support of its work on climate change and sustainable development within the business community. He is currently on the Boards of the Suncor Energy Foundation, Learning for a Sustainable Future (LSF), and NatureServe, which supports conservation efforts of governments and non-government organizations internationally. He is also a Canadian representative on the Joint Public Advisory Committee to the US, Canadian and Mexican Environment Ministers under NAFTA (The Commission for Environmental Cooperation).
 

 

David B. Layzell
Department of Biology, Queen’s University
CEO and Research Director, BIOCAP Canada Foundation

 

David Layzell is a world-renowned plant physiologist whose recent work addresses the challenges of climate change. He is best known for his studies of the physiological, biochemical and biophysical factors that regulate the metabolism of carbon and nitrogen in legume plants.

Dr. Layzell's current research focuses on the physiological and biochemical factors that constrain and regulate reductive and oxidative metabolism in plants and soils. This exciting research area has important implications for our understanding of how biological systems affect, and are affected by, the atmospheric gases that have been implicated in "forcing" climate change.

Dr. Layzell serves as Chief Executive Officer and Research Director of the BIOCAP Canada Foundation, a national, not-for-profit organization dedicated to supporting and communicating research that explores the scientific insights, technological innovations and policy options associated with using the Canadian biosphere to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from agricultural systems, move atmospheric carbon dioxide into plants and soil, and replace GHG-intensive energy sources with renewable, bio-based products.

His research accomplishments have been recognized with his induction to the Royal Society of Canada.
 

 

Jonathan Lieberman
Master's Candidate, Dofasco Centre for Engineering and Public Policy

 

Originally from Hamilton, Ontario, Jonathan graduated from McGill University in 2003 with a Bachelor of Civil Engineering, Management Minor, with a focus on Water Resources. For the past 5 years, he has worked for Zenon Environmental/GE Water, first as a Field Service engineer commissioning water treatment plants and currently as a Systems Design Engineer in Product Development. In 2007, Mr. Lieberman became a licensed Professional Engineer in Ontario. Jonathan is currently enrolled in a part-time Master’s degree in Engineering and Public Policy at McMaster University and his interests lie in the areas of water and environmental impacts of product design. He has traveled extensively for work and pleasure throughout South America, India, and Europe and is engaged to be married in September 2008.
 

 

Peter Love
Ontario’s Chief Energy Conservation Officer

 

Peter Love was appointed Ontario’s first Chief Energy Conservation Officer in April 2005 to head the Conservation Bureau, a division of the Ontario Power Authority, and is a member of the OPA senior management team.

The mandate of the Chief Energy Conservation Officer is to provide leadership in electricity conservation and demand management and advance a conservation culture in Ontario. This includes championing the value of conservation and the benefit of participating in conservation programs; acknowledging the contributions of individuals and organizations that embrace conservation throughout the province, and advocating for higher energy efficiency codes and standards and the appointment of Municipal Energy Conservation Officers (MECOs) in every Ontario community.

Mr. Love has enjoyed a long and distinguished career in the area of energy efficiency. As the Executive Director of the Canadian Energy Efficiency Alliance, he was a leading advocate for energy efficiency and its related benefits to the economy and the environment. In prior roles, he was responsible for managing the R-2000 and Energy Star Qualified New Homes programs. An active volunteer and community activist, Love sits on the National Advisory Committee on Energy Efficiency, and served as the director of the Canadian Coalition on Acid Rain.

No stranger to the concept of a “cultural shift” in the Province, early in his career Mr. Love worked as a project coordinator for Pollution Probe with the team that developed the concept “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle”.

Mr. Love’s commitment to sustainable buildings and energy efficiency earned a Lifetime Achievement Award in October 2007 from Sustainable Buildings Canada. He received his MBA and BA from the University of Toronto.
 

 

Don MacIver
Director, Adaptation and Impacts Research Division, Environment Canada

 

Don is the Director of the Adaptation and Impacts Research Division at Environment Canada. He has a long and distinguished research record with over 100 scientific publications to his credit. Don has considerable international experience having represented Canada at numerous meetings including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Inter American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI), the UNESCO and the UN Convention on Biological Diversity. He is a Research Associate of the Smithsonian Institution. Don has served as a professor at York University and as an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto. He worked as a biometrician and mensurationist at the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources before joining Environment Canada as a forest meteorologist and adaptation scientist.

Outside of work, he is a municipal politician (Mayor), a farmer, an environmental activist, an amateur ham radio operator and a CANWARN volunteer.
 

 

Scott Minos
Energy Technology Program Specialist, United States Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

 

Scott Minos has been employed by the United States Department of Energy (DOE) since 1986. He currently is employed as an Energy Technology Specialist for the DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE). He is responsible for key communication elements that promote DOE’s domestic and international programs relating to alternative and renewable energy sources, energy efficiency, energy conservation, greenhouse gases and climate change, carbon sequestration, electric transmission, and advanced sciences. Scott has worked extensively on a variety of DOE programs including the Challenge X and Future Truck collegiate automotive engineering competitions as well as the bi-annual Solar Decathlon collegiate building and energy engineering competition. Scott also travels throughout Africa and Asia to support efforts related to the Department's Renewables for Sustainable Village Power program that brings electric power to remote areas of the developing world.

Scott received his Bachelor of Science degree in Public Policy from Florida State University in 1984.

Prior to coming to DOE, Scott worked for a Member of the Florida House of Representatives as well as being a talk radio personality. Scott is also currently employed as a contract performer for the Washington National Opera and the Washington Chorus.

Other interests include collecting antique automobiles, wrestling, and small dog rescue.
 

 

 

 

Randy Park
Principal, Thinking for Results

 

Randy Park, B.Sc., M.Eng. trained as a physicist and now helps organizations anticipate and plan for the future. As founder of Thinking for Results he helps people master the unrecognized obstacles to long term success by clarifying their thinking and decision making. A member of the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers, his first book is titled "Thinking for Results - Success Strategies" and his second book "The Prediction Trap" will be published in 2008.

A key aspect of Randy's work is energy supply and demand issues and the often obscure interrelationships between oil, natural gas, electricity, hydrogen, transportation, and the economy. For most businesses, indeed for Western society, the predicament we face with energy production and consumption is likely the biggest unrecognized barrier to future success.

As a professional speaker, one of Randy's specialties is taking a complex issue like the energy predicament and distilling it down to the essentials. He is a frequent media commentator on energy issues. He also serves as chair of Post Carbon Toronto, a citizen's group dedicated to increasing public awareness of energy issues.

Randy is an enthusastic sailor and spends much of his summer on Lake Ontario!
 

 

Ian Pearce
Chief Executive Officer, Xstrata Nickel

 

Ian Pearce, aged 51, was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Xstrata Nickel in August
2006 following Xstrata’s acquisition of Falconbridge. He is responsible for global nickel and
ferronickel operations and projects in North and South America, Europe, Africa, Australia
and the South Pacific. With an attractive portfolio of greenfield and brownfield projects,
Ian’s focus is on the continuing growth of the nickel commodity business.

Ian joined Falconbridge in 2003 as Senior Vice President of Projects and oversaw the
advancement of major projects such as the Collahuasi Transition Project, Montcalm Nickel
Project, Kidd Mine D and Nickel Rim South in Canada. He also oversaw several key studies
including the feasibility for the Koniambo Nickel Project in New Caledonia. He became
Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Falconbridge in May 2006.

Ian has more than 27 years of professional experience in metallurgy and mining. Prior to
joining Falconbridge in 2003, he worked on Canadian oil sands projects as well as
metallurgical and mining projects for Fluor Daniel in Canada, Indonesia, Chile and South
Africa. He began his career in South Africa on the gold mines and in process and project
engineering.

Educated in South Africa, Ian holds an engineering HND in mineral processing and a
Bachelor of Science from the University of Witwatersrand. He has also received strategic
management training at Henley College in the United Kingdom.

He sits on the Board of Directors for the Mining Association of Canada and the Nickel
Institute, and is on the Advisory Board of Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100.
 

 

The Honourable Gerry Phillips
Minister of Energy

 

Gerry Phillips was appointed Minister of Energy by Premier Dalton McGuinty on October 30, 2007. During the Liberal government's previous four years, Mr. Phillips served as Minister of Government Services, Chair of Management Board of Cabinet and Minister of Citizenship and Immigration.

Mr. Phillips first entered provincial politics in 1987 when he was elected to represent Scarborough-Agincourt in the Ontario legislature.

In the previous Liberal government, Mr. Phillips served as Minister of Citizenship and later as Minister of Labour. In opposition, he served as finance and native affairs critic, and as chair of the economic policy committee for the official opposition.

After graduating with an honours bachelor of commerce from the University of Western Ontario's School of Business, Mr. Phillips worked for Procter & Gamble. In 1970, he joined the consulting firm of Canadian Marketing Associates and became president in 1977. Under his direction, Canadian Marketing Associates became Canada's leading marketing management consulting firm. He later founded two spin-off companies. In 1979, he launched the Sales Development Group, which became Canada's largest management consulting firm specializing in sales force consulting. Three years later, he founded the Retail Resource Group, which became one of the largest retail service groups in the country. By 1987, he was chair of all three companies, employing 300 people.

Mr. Phillips served as a school trustee for 11 years and during this period was chair of the Metropolitan Toronto School Board and the Scarborough Board of Education. He was also chair of the board of governors for Scarborough General Hospital and is a past president of the Bridlewood Community Association. Mr. Phillips coached in the Agincourt Lions Club Minor Hockey League for more than 25 years.

His wife, Kay, is a nationally recognized quilt maker who lectures and teaches throughout North America. They have four children and four grandchildren.

 

Gregor Robinson
Vice-President, Policy and Economic Analysis,
Ontario Energy Association

 

Gregor Robinson joined the Ontario Energy Association as Vice-President, Policy and Economic Analysis in January 2006. He previously held Director-level positions in both the Ontario Ministry of Finance (Economic Policy Branch) and the Ministry of Energy (Office of Alternative Energy and the Conservation, Energy Efficiency and Renewables Office). Gregor was
President of Plain Language Economics Inc., an economics, public policy and strategic communications consulting firm, from 1990-2003. He has a B.A. from the University of Toronto and an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics.
 

 

Juergen G. Schachler
President and Chief Executive Officer
ArcelorMittal Dofasco Inc.

 

Juergen Schachler was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of Dofasco Inc. (now ArcelorMittal Dofasco Inc.) on May 1, 2007.
 
Mr. Schachler is a graduate of the Universität Hannover in Germany, where he specialized in Management, Economics and Finance. He began his career with one of Germany’s leading banks, and has held senior positions in the chemicals and steel processing industries. In 1993, he joined Sprint Metal Edelstahlziehereien, a member company of one of the predecessors of ArcelorMittal, and has since held leadership roles in other stainless steel business units, including Techalloy Company Inc., Trefilados Inoxidables de Mexico and Thainox Steel Limited in Thailand.
 
Prior to his appointment at ArcelorMittal Dofasco, Mr. Schachler was Chief Executive Officer of Arcelor Eisenhüttenstadt in Germany, a fully integrated steel mill. Mr. Schachler is on the board of the Canadian Steel Producers’ Association and the American Iron and Steel Institute, and is also a member of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives.
 

 

Vasudha Seth
General Manager, Corporate Projects,
ArcelorMittal Dofasco

 

Vasudha Seth received her Bachelors Degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Toronto in 1988 and Masters in Business Administration from York University in 1994.

She began her professional career at Dofasco in 1988, working in a variety of roles in Technology and Corporate Planning. She held the position of General Manager for Environment & Energy between 1997 and 2003.

From 2003-2005, Vasudha was appointed to the position of Director, Sustainable Development. In this role, she was charged with integrating Sustainable Development into Dofasco’s long-term strategic planning process.

More recently, Vasudha has been leading business transformation initiatives in the areas of Information Technology, development of the 2009-2010 Value Plan for Dofasco, and identification of synergies with ArcelorMittal USA.
 

 

Ian Shaw
Energy Manager, Corporate Technology, ArcelorMittal Inc.

 

Ian currently holds the position of Energy Manager, Office of the Chief Technology Officer, G. D. of Luxembourg with responsibility for energy efficiency and conservation activities associated with ArcelorMittal’s North and South American operations.

Over the past 20 years, Ian has amassed a broad experience in the areas of manufacturing, engineering, environmental affairs, energy management, business development and strategic issues within the steel industry.

Ian has had extensive involvement in environmental policy development and implementation at the national and international levels. He has been affiliated with the National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy, the Conference Board of Canada and the Canadian delegation during TC 207 - ISO 14040 standards creation. Within the steel sector he has chaired committees in the areas of environmentally focused product marketing, product certification, and sector level pollution reduction strategies. He led a corporate growth and diversification initiative in the area of clean energy technologies examining technologies and developing business relationships in the areas of synthetic fuels, waste heat recovery, photovoltaics, and carbon dioxide capture.

He has been an active member and representative for the Canadian Steel Producers Association, American Iron and Steel Association and International Iron and Steel Institute regarding environment and energy issues.

Ian has authored of a number of industry papers on the topics of corporate sustainability, environmental challenges in the steel industry, environmentally focused product issues, and innovation in the steel industry.

He speaks regularly at McMaster University’s School of Engineering and Public Policy and York University’s Schulich School of Business MBA program and on the topics of corporate strategic environmental management, global environmental issues, and corporate sustainability.

Ian holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from McMaster University and is a registered professional engineer. He is an alumnus of the Queen's University School of Business and Western University Ivey School of Business executive development programs.
 

 

Ralph Torrie
Vice President, ICF International

 

Ralph Torrie is an expert in the field of energy and environment with 30 years of entrepreneurial and consulting experience that includes hundreds of initiatives in research, business development, and advocacy. He is widely respected for combining visionary thinking with rigorous analysis and has made original and important contributions in the field of sustainable development. The methods and software he has developed for air emission reduction strategies at the local government level are used throughout the world. He has worked throughout Canada and around the world, has numerous publications, and in 2002 he received the Canadian Environment Silver Award for his work on climate change. He is an accomplished public speaker and frequent media commentator on energy issues. In the mid-1980’s he served as the assistant coordinator of the Energy Research Group of the United Nations University and the International Development Research Centre and in the late 1980’s he was part of a group of environmental analysts and advocates that helped define the sustainable development agenda that has become the focus of national and international policy. He is the co-inventor of environmental planning software that has been translated into several languages and is used by more than 300 municipalities, companies and institutions on five Continents. He is an expert on Canadian energy demand patterns and both the historical and potential future role of energy efficiency in providing energy security for Canadians. He has worked for all levels of government in Canada, numerous NGO’S, utilities, institutional and private sector clients. Recently completed projects he has led include an assessment of the potential for electricity efficiency in Ontario for the Ontario Power Authority and a scenario analysis for the National Round Table on Environment and the Economy on how Canada could reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 60% by 2050.
 

 

 

Adam White joined the Association of Major Power Consumers in Ontario as their President in August 2005.

Mr. White has 15 years experience in policy economics, analysis and advocacy, achieving energy, environmental and public health policy outcomes for clients and employers in the not-for-profit, public and private sectors.

Mr. White has a degree in economics from UBC and a diploma in Facilitative Leadership from the York University Faculty of Environmental Studies. Mr. White is a Fellow of the Leadership in Environment and Development programme of the Canadian National Round Table on the Environment and Economy, the International Development Research Centre and the Rockefeller Foundation.
 

 

David Wilkinson
Dean, Faculty of Engineering, McMaster University

 

David S. Wilkinson is a Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at McMaster University. He received his undergraduate degree in Engineering Science from the University of Toronto (1972) and his Ph.D. in Engineering Materials from the University of Cambridge (1978). Following a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Wilkinson joined the faculty of McMaster University as an assistant professor in 1979. He was promoted to full professor in 1988. He has served as department chair from 1987-91 and as acting chair on two occasions since then.

Prof. Wilkinson’s teaching has ranged from Level I to graduate courses. He was instrumental in the development of a new Level 1 Materials course, currently taught to about 1,000 students a year. A two-year development effort culminated in the development of a highly interactive learning environment for this course. Prof. Wilkinson has also written an undergraduate textbook on mass transport, published by Cambridge University Press.

Prof. Wilkinson is the author of over 200 scientific publications, specializing in the mechanical behaviour of both metals and ceramics. His current research interests include the effect of thermomechanical processing on the properties of alloys (magnesium, aluminum and high strength steel), the incorporation of damage into models of deformation and ductile fracture and the effect of creep on oxidation rates in TiAl. This work is unified by an interest in the role of microstructural complexity on mechanical behaviour. His work has been strongly supported by industrial partners from the automotive and aerospace industry.

Prof. Wilkinson was the founding Director of the McMaster Centre for Automotive Materials. Prior to becoming Dean he was also the Director of the McMaster Manufacturing Research Institute and co-academic Director of the new Initiative for Automotive Manufacturing Innovation (IAMI). He has held visiting professorships at the Max Planck Intitut für Metallforschung (as a von Humboldt fellow), the University of California Santa Barbara, the Institut National des Sciences Appliqués de Lyon, the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (as CNRS fellow) and the University of Tokyo, the latter under the auspices of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (CIM) and a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society. He is a recipient of the Canadian Materials Physics Medal (2004) and the Dofasco Award of the Metallurgical Society of CIM (2004). He is also a recipient of two awards for contributions to the scientific literature - the Best Materials Paper Award of the Metallurgical Society of CIM (1996) and of the Ross Coffin Purdy Award of the American Ceramic Society (2000). Professor Wilkinson was appointed as a CIM Distinguished Lecturer for 2003/2004.
 

 

Mark S. Winfield, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Environmental Studies,
York University

 

Mark Winfield is an assistant professor of Environmental Studies at York University and incoming coordinator of the joint Master of Environmental Studies/Bachelor of Laws program offered in conjunction with Osgoode Hall Law School. Prior to joining York's Faculty of Environmental Studies, Dr. Winfield was Policy and Program Director with the Pembina Institute, and prior to that Director of Research with the Canadian Institute for Environmental Law and Policy.

Dr. Winfield holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Toronto, and has published reports, articles and book chapters on a wide range of environmental law and policy issues. His recent works on energy sustainability include Power for the Future: Towards A Sustainable Electricity System for Ontario (Pembina Institute, 2004), A Quick Start Energy Efficiency Strategy for Ontario (Pembina Institute, 2006), Nuclear Power in Canada: An Examination of Risks, Impacts and Sustainability (Pembina Institute 2006) and "Climate Change and Canadian Energy Policy: Policy Contradiction and Policy Failure" (Behind the Headlines January 2008).