Resume

• 2004

  Privy Council Office

  Simon Fraser University

  University of British Columbia

  Provided advice to the Clerk of the Privy Council and Prime Minister Paul Martin on climate change

  health and environment

  long-term sustainability planning and other environmental law and policy issues

  Privy Council Office

  Ph.D

  Dissertation titled The Environmental Rights Revolution: Constitutions

  Human Rights

  and the Environment\nCourse work completed with 92% average.

  Resource Management and Environmental Studies

  The University of British Columbia

• 1986

  J.D.

  Law

• 1982

  Spanish

  Bachelor of Commerce

  in the top ten of my class

  Finance and Marketing

  University of Alberta

• 20

  After serving as a staff lawyer from 1993 to 1996 I became responsible for all aspects of running Canada's largest non-profit environmental law organization

  including strategic planning

  litigation

  law reform

  fundraising

  accounting

  administration

  and personnel. Under my leadership

  Sierra Legal expanded to 35 employees

  four offices

  000 supporters

  and operated at a surplus on a budget of almost $2.5 million.

  Sierra Legal Defence Fund

  Adjunct Professor

  I taught a graduate seminar in \"Environmental Law and Policy\" in the School of Resource and Environmental Management. Student evaluations consistently rated both the course and the instructor as excellent.

  Simon Fraser University

  Ecological Lawyer

  Co-Chair (with Mayor Gregor Robertson)\n\t\tGreenest City Action Team

  City of Vancouver\nI led a group of 15 environmental experts in developing two reports-including ambitious targets

  timelines

  and recommended actions-aimed at making Vancouver the greenest city in the world by 2020. Responsibility for monitoring progress is ongoing.\n\n2005-06:\tSpecial Advisor on Sustainability\n\t\tPrivy Council Office

  Government of Canada\nAt Prime Minister Martin's request

  I provided advice on the sustainability implications of federal policies and programs (e.g. the budget

  Kyoto

  New Deal for Cities

  Northern Strategy) as well as strategic guidance to the newly created Cabinet Committee on Sustainability and the Environment.; \n\nPOLIS Project on Ecological Governance

  University of Victoria\n\tPOLIS engages in research

  writing

  and advocacy. My primary focus involves incorporating ecological principles into our legal systems through promoting innovative yet pragmatic law and policy proposals.

  Independent

  Associate Professor

  Vancouver

  Canada

  University of British Columbia

• Environmental Education

  Policy Analysis

  Environmental Awareness

  Policy

  Proposal Writing

  Strategy

  Community Outreach

  Public Policy

  Leadership

  Sustainability

  Fundraising

  Program Management

  Climate Change

  Research

  Nonprofits

  Corporate Social Responsibility

  Environmental Policy

  Ecology

  Strategic Planning

  Sustainable Development

  Boyd

  David R.

  Boyd

  Sierra Legal Defence Fund

  Independent