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Commonwealth of Independent States
1995-1997 - Cohort 4
Viatcheslav KARBANOV
Viatcheslav KABANOV is a research associate at the Russian Academy of Sciences, which is part of the Central Economics and Mathematics Institute in Moscow. He deals extensively with information systems, remote sources of information, Internet navigation and database systems. He has taken part in numerous scientific and environmental conferences and internships both at home and abroad and has published articles on information systems and related topics. In 1994, he participated in an internship program on sustainable development at the Centre for Our Common Future in Geneva, Switzerland, in which he worked at the United Nations Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC). In 1995, he participated in a summer program for young scientists at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria in which he worked on a project about international environmental commitments. V. Kabanov has a master's degree in mechanics from the mechanics and mathematics department of Moscow State University.
Brazil
2007-2008 - Cohort 13
Vicente F. Manzione
I have experience in the areas of education, sustainabilility, climate change and finance have participated in projects at Pepsico, Votorantim Metais, Pernambucans, CTEEP, Itau-Unibanco, Methodist University, ICLEI, Brasilinvest and ERM Brasil. I am co-founder of Institute BARCA - Brazilian Action / Resilience, Climate Adaptation, where I am responsible to knowledge management. I am also assessor at the Environmental Centre at Methodist University of Sao Paulo and a partner and consultant at Gestão Origami a Sustainability Services.

I graduated in Economic Science (2001), got a MSc in Environment and Development from LSE – London School of Economics and Political Science (2003) and completed the Certificate in Education for Sustainability at Schumnacher College (2008). In 2009 he graduated as a fellow of LEAD Program on Leadership for Climate Security.

Specialties:
- Climate Change: adaptation strategies and mitigation (GHG inventories);
- Environmental services compensations & economic valuation;
- Creation and excecution of Education in Sustainability Programs and Courses.
Indonesia
1994-1996 - Cohort 3
Victor CHANDRAWIRA
Starting his career as a Researcher, and later promoted to Researcher Consultant, Victor had his early career life in the Netherlands Economic Institute, which handled projects on micro finance and social development under the cooperation with the World Bank in Indonesia for the period of four years. Three years later, he decided to build up his career and expertise in the marketing area and had been exposed to managing a property-realty brokerage company (PT ERA Graharealty) a developer company (PT Dharmala Intiland) and had set-up the marketing department of Red Rocket Animation, an animation production house.

In 1996 he joined a representative of Franklin Covey's intellectual products in Indonesia, first as Facilitator / Specialist Trainer, responsible for running workshop on people development, based on Covey's products. His success earned him the title of Senior Facilitator/Consultant fully in charge of consulting clients on Organizational Development through alignment process of human resource programs. His other assignments included development of products for Indonesian market ran programs and developed Professional Resource Team for South East Asia Region.

From April 2001 till December 2002, Victor joined AndrewTani & Co., an organizational development consultant, where he leads one of the business units - Learning Division.

At present, Victor runs his own consultancy firm in Jakarta, named BR2C (stands for Be Ready To Change) that focused on facilitation services on Business (working) process consultancy, strategic alignment processes and people development processes.

At the same time, he becomes the resource person for several non-profit organizations such as the World Bank Institute, Future Search Network and the International Youth Forum.
Anglophone and West Africa
1992-1994 - Cohort 1
Victor Chukwudi EKA
Victor Eka holds a bachelor's degree with honors in history from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, he holds a postgraduate diploma in education from the University of Lagos as well as diplomas from ESSEC and INSEAD in France.

He is the chairman and managing director of Electro Wave Ltd., which is a consulting outfit in small scale enterprise development (training and incubation). The company also imports and markets products in Nigeria.

Since graduating from LEAD he has also formed a waste management company which is currently looking into ways of introducing sustainable waste management in Nigeria.
Southern and Eastern Africa
1999-2001 - Cohort 8
Victor Manuel Romano JULIEN
Victor Julien is a Drilling and production engineer. He earned his Master's Degree in Romania in 1983. He then worked with Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos de Mo�ambique.

In 1985 he was appointed as field Director in Vilanculos where, during a 4-year stay he prepared and coordinated the first drilling operation for Natural Gas in Pande Field.

In 1989 he moved back to Maputo where he was appointed Head of New Development Projects Department.

Currently, besides performing functions, he is a member of the Board of Directors of the Company.

Victor Julien is a frequent contributor with University (Universidade Eduardo Mondlane) in subjects related to energy, particularly the usage of Natural Gas in substitution of other sources of energy like biomass, electricity and in transportation.
Mexico
2000-2002 - Cohort 9
Victor Miguel BÁRCENA DÍAZ
Miguel Bárcena Díaz for more than 23 years has been a newscaster and investigative reporter for prominent Mexican television, TELEVISA NEWS and ECO; such as the Mexican version of 60 Minutes and 24-hours.As investigative reporter for 60 minutes for 12 years, he covered approximately 140 hour-long segments on environmental issues, international affairs and underwater documentaries. As a newscaster, his credits include 24-hours, Today Today and En Concreto. He also delivered several news segments, debate programas and special programs for ECO News International Service, broadcast live worldwide from Mexico City to all over the world.(1989-1999)

Between 1994 and 1995, he was co-founder and information director for BASURA the first environmental supplement of EPOCA Magazine. From 1980 to 1989, he worked in various capacities for Televisa News, the principal Broadcast Company in Latin America. He was an investigative reporter, correspondent, news anchor and general director of several investigative programs. He also developed environmental programming for Mexican television such as Ecology, Getting Deeper and 2000 Appointment. Mr. Barcena studied communications and tv production at the Iberoamerican University in Mexico City (1981) and journalism at the Navarra University in Pamplona, Spain (1988).

Since february 1999, is the general Director and Anchor for ABC News in ABC Radio in Mexico city and since october 2001, is the general News Director for INTELI TV (A Cable News System Brdocast Nationwide from Mexico City), where he conducts two daily news shows; 'De Frente' and 'Palabra por Palabra. He is also a teacher of Radio and Tv Journalism at the Panamerican University in Mexico City, and write articles about envioronmental ant tourism issues in several Mexican Magazines.

Since november 1999 he became the Vicepresident of the Historical Divig Society Mexico.
Commonwealth of Independent States
1993-1995 - Cohort 2
Victor Nikolaevich ADROV
Victor Nikolaevich Adrov, who directs the department of mathematical and physical problems of medical diagnostics at the Scientific Council on Cybernetics Russian Academy of Sciences, received his master's degree in physics from Moscow Physical-Technical Institute and earned a doctorate in techniques. He is also director of a company, which specializes in software development. He has worked as director at the Center of Informatics and electronics in Medicine of the World Laboratory Branch in Russia. His professional interests are in physics, computer sciences and management.
Commonwealth of Independent States
1999-2001 - Cohort 8
Victoria ANTONIU
Victoria ANTONIU is currently a Lean Process Improvement Facilitator Lead with Residents First of OHQC, currently mentoring a few long-term care homes in Ontario, Canada on their Process Improvement projects. Victoria has a solid background in continuous process improvement and compliance, quality management, business continuity and facilitation of change in the supply chain industry in Ontario.
In the past, Victoria has directed the Local Government program at Soros Foundation-Moldova; she has mentored the development of the first Local Environmental Action Plan under Tacis and has delivered training on Environmental Impact Assessment for the Social Investment Fund at the World Bank.
Victoria Antoniu holds a MSc degree in Environmental Sciences and Policy from the Central European University in Hungary. Her BSc degree in Biology and Chemistry is from the State University of Moldova.
Victoria is actively involved in the community life of Toronto and as a North York Women Centre volunteer she enjoys facilitating women support groups. Victoria is a proud mother of two wonderful children.
Commonwealth of Independent States
1998-2000 - Cohort 7
Victoria ELIAS
Victoria ELIAS is Conservation Programme Director of WWF Russia. She is responsible for the coordination of thematic programmes as wel as regional offices work of the organisation. Victoria is also a member of LEAD International Board of Directors since 2006? participates in different international programmes and processes and serves on boards of several international and national NGOs. Prior to joining WWF, she was for 8 years a Chair and coordinator of the European ECO-Forum - Environmental NGO Coalition of the UN-ECE region and worked at Eco-Accord, Russia. Victoria is involved deeply in policy and practice on Education on Sustainable Development at national and pan-European level, she participated in developing of UNECE and Russian Strategies on ESD and continues this work. She is also engaged in research and training and gives lectures on environmental policy and civil society in Moscow State University. Ms. Elias has a number of publications on civil society, public participation, eduction for sustainable development and environmental policy and practice. Her interests are related to sustainable development, global governance, multistakeholder partnerships,education for sustainable development and conservation. She also has experience on water and tourism issues. Ms.Elias has PhD in biology from Moscow Lomonosov State University. She has been trained additionally on ecotoxicology and NGO management.
Europe
2009-2010 - Cohort 15
Victoria Hurth
Victoria Hurth is a researcher, lecturer, consultant and public speaker on sustainability. She has gained experience across academia, environmentalism and business: working as a management consultant in retail marketing for Accenture; studying a PhD on social marketing and behaviour change for sustainability; lecturing at Exeter and Plymouth Universities, Schumacher College and Ashridge Business School on sustainability and identity; and supporting local community action on climate change. She currently specialises in sustainable marketing theory and practice. She has been sustainability co-ordinator volunteer for CAFOD and a British Council Climate Change Ambassador.
International
Victoria Owusu
Canada
1995-1997 - Cohort 4
Viive Marie WARK
As Marketing Manager for OCETA, Ms. Wark is responsible for the marketing and promotion of all of OCETA's environmental products, programs and services. These include; the Ontario Waste Materials Exchange (OWME); consulting services to small-to-medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in the area of environmental technology development and commercialization; Eco-Efficiency Innovation; Community Based Sustainability Programs; Technology Profiles; and Environmental Technology Verification (ETV) Canada.

Ms. Wark has significant experience in the area of industrial waste management and has been successful with raising awareness of the OWME's services to manufacturing companies in various sectors across Ontario. The OWME is a program designed to facilitate the reduction, reuse, recycling and composting of waste materials generated by industry and commerce. As such, Ms. Wark works directly with the OWME's funding partners to target companies within their scope and in addition, markets the program to other prospective partners.

In addition, Ms. Wark is the Project Manager for OCETA's role in the CIDA funded Waste-Econ Program: Making Wastes Work for the Economy through the Development of Integrated Waste Management in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. Ms. Wark is interested in working with various Vietnamese partners to share her expertise in the area of waste exchanges, industrial waste management, and reuse and recycling. The intention is to determine the best opportunity for developing and implementing a pilot waste exchange program in an industrial area near Ho Chi Minh City.

Viive brings with her 10 years of professional and academic experience in the business and environment field. She was with Loblaw Companies Limited for 5 years, as Manager of Environmental Affairs, and prior to joining OCETA in the fall of 1999, Viive was an environmental consultant with IndEco Strategic Consulting Inc. As Manager of Business and Environment, she was responsible for marketing and business development but was also involved directly with client projects. She researched, analyzed and reported on waste management, producer responsibility, deposit-return systems, municipal recycling programs, environmental management and planning and other environment/economy issues.

Viive also has extensive international experience that includes working as a foreign advisor for the Ministry of Environment in Tallinn, Estonia.

Viive holds a Master of Environmental Studies from York University and an Honours Bachelor of Arts from Queen's University.
India
1996-1998 - Cohort 5
Vimal GARG
Vimal Garg is working as Director, R S Envirolink Technologies Pvt Ltd, Gurgaon. R. S. Envirolink Technologies Pvt. Ltd. (RSET) is a specialized consulting service company, focused to provide entire gamut of environmental services for water resource development projects and is a renowned name in hydro power sector with most of the active private and government clientele of the hydro power sector.

Prior to this he was Head of Environment and Urban Water with DHI Water and Environment (formerly Danish Hydraulic Institute) where he is primarily involved in water resources modelling and decision support systems in water resources development and management. Vimal Garg is B.Tech (Civil Engineering, 1990) from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. Earlier, he has worked with WAPCOS, Water and Power Consultancy Services, a government undertaking under the Ministry of Water Resources in India for about 15 years and had worked on more than 70 consultancy assignments, funded by various national and international agencies, in the field of environment mainly related to EIA and Socio-economic aspects of water resources development with about several assignments as coordinator of team consisting of experts from various agencies and disciplines.

He was core member of the team of international experts that prepared 'Guidelines for Sustainable Water Resources Development and Management' and a team of water experts from Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and India working on Water and Security in South Asia.

He has also done certificate courses on 'Satellite Image interpretation & GIS' from Environmental Systems Research Institute and 'Management of reservoir sedimentation' from Engineering Staff College of India and published a few papers in national and international journals.

He was identified by Committee on International Collaboration-International Water Resources Association (CIC-IWRA), Third World Centre for Water Management, Mexico (TWCWM) and Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) as future water leader. He is the youngest and only Indian in a group of 14 professionals selected from across the globe.
India
1998-2000 - Cohort 7
Vinayak RAO
Dr. Vinayak Rao, a national of India, is a specialist in Climate Change, International Relations, Leadership and Higher Education. He has a doctorate in Diplomatic Studies and International Relations from Jawaharlal Nehru University (1993).

In the realm of Climate Change, his core interests include: capacity building in developing countries with a focus on climate negotiations; international law and policy development; and, national implementation.

He is a LEAD Fellow since 2000, having completed a two-year advanced leadership programme as a LEAD Associate during 1998-2000. LEAD (Leadership for Environment and Development) - an initiative of the Rockefeller Foundation is one of the most ambitious leadership programs ever designed to create new professionals with leadership skills to move forward the agenda of sustainability and human development.

Dr. Rao’s involvement with global environmental issues and higher education such as "greening of the university" and integrating environmental concerns in higher education began during the UN Earth Summit in 1992.

He is currently involved with a long-term project to establish a domain-specific University of Climate Studies in India/South Asia.

Dr. Rao has an extensive experience in the field of environment and climate change over the last two decades and this includes work at various levels – United Nations, academics, policy analysis, strategic consulting and grassroots organizations. In the early stages of his career, he worked as Senior Policy Analyst on climate change at Centre for Science and Environment and as Research Associate with The Energy and Resources Institute in New Delhi. Subsequently, Dr. Rao taught at the Jawaharlal Nehru University and also worked with the United Nations University in Jordan and Japan focusing on environment, leadership and governance. Besides leading a delegation of 30 emerging leaders from 27 countries to the World Summit on Sustainable Development, he represented the United Nations University at UN Climate Summits in Morocco and India.

He is the Founder and Chief Executive of Climate Change and Environmental Leadership Network (CEL-NET). The Network can be accessed at : www.cel-net.org
India
1993-1995 - Cohort 2
Vinesh JAIRATH
Mr. Vinesh Kumar Jairath, IAS served as Deputy General Manager of Union Bank of India. Mr. Jairath has over 26 years of varied administrative experience. Mr. Jairath served as the Managing Director of State Industrial and Investment Corporation of Maharashtra Ltd. (a/k/a SICOM Ltd.). Mr. Jairath provided consultancy and advisory services to some overseas funds and manufacturing companies in the areas of infrastructure development and industrial investment. Mr. Jairath joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1982 and has held various positions in the government of Maharashtra and the GOI, such as Director in MoEF, GoI, New Delhi, Secretary to the Governor of Maharashtra and as the Principal Secretary (Industries), Maharashtra. He has been an Independent Director at Avantha Power & Infrastructure Limited since June 25, 2008. He serves as a Director of Tata Motors Limited and Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited. He serves as a Director at Securities And Exchange Board Of India (SEBI). He served as a Director of Maharashtra State Financial Corporation from May 25, 2003 to June 12, 2005 and MOIL Limited from February 10, 2005 to March 31, 2008. Mr. Jairath holds a Bachelors’ degree in Public Administration and Law from the Punjab University, Chandigarh, and a Masters’ degree in Development Economics from the University of Manchester, UK.
Southern and Eastern Africa
1998-2000 - Cohort 7
Violet MONGEZA
Violet Mutinta MONGEZA Currently work as Deputy Principle at Kamfinsa Secondary school. In charge of the day to day administration, finances and the day to day running of the institution. She was Executive member of the Kitwe District Orphans and Vulnreable Committee, an association charged with the formation of Community Schools that cater for the Vulneable in the District. She participated in the Mufulira District Community Environmental Management Programme (CEMP) in which we carried out a survey on the Sanitation Situation in Peri-urban Mufulira.

V. Mongeza has a first degree in Geography, a certificate in management and is currently under taking a Masters in Business Administration, with Azaliah Pretoria, South Africa.
Europe
2005-2006 - Cohort 11
Violeta ORLOVIC LOVREN
Violeta ORLOVIC LOVREN is currently in Belgrade, Serbia. She is teaching at the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philosophy, Department for Adult Education. She took her PhD in December 2011, at Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. The central issue of the dissertation is "Adult Education and Capacity development for Sustainable Management of Protected Areas". Before that, she was working as training manager on various development projects funded by USAID, with DAI and CHF International. She is also President of Environmental NGO called E - team, as well as the member of the Executive Board of Association of Andragogists of Serbia (DAS). Beside that, she is being engaged as environmental and capacity development consultant in numerous projects, related to social and education aspects of biodiversity, nature conservation and sustainable tourism in Serbia as well as in the Balkans. Violeta used to work in the Institute for the Protection of Nature of Serbia, as Head of Department for Education/Communication (1995-2003). During that period, she established valuable international contacts and became member of IUCN Commission on Education and Communication, of IUCN WCPA European Training Task Force, as well as of IUCN CEESP Collaborative Management Working Group (now TGER).
In the year 2007, Violeta won Hubert Humphrey Fellowship from US State Department and spent a year in Seattle, WA, affiliated with University of Washington.
Anglophone and West Africa
2010-2011 - Cohort 16
Vivian Ikem
Brazil
2008-2009 - Cohort 14
Viviane Gurgel
Lawyer and economist. Master in Development and Environment - PRODEMA - UFAL. Master in International Law USP. Expert in Law and Economics of Enterprise FGV-SP. PhD in Sustainable Development - CDS-UnB (incomplete). Legislative Advisor in the Federal Chamber of the Deputies. Instructor of the Uniethos.
Francophone Africa
2009-2010 - Cohort 15
Viviane Mbengue
Commonwealth of Independent States
1999-2001 - Cohort 8
Vladimir Aleksandrovich KOROTENKO
Vladimir KOROTENKO is coordinator of the educational and publishing programs of the youth ecological movement 'BIOM' and was recently chief of the project 'Network of ecological organizations of Kyrgyzstan'. From 1997-1998, he participated in a commission on ecological education in Kyrgyzstan and was responsible for the development and realization of a training program on ecological policy for youth leaders. In 1995-1996, he taught biology at ILIM, an educational complex.

From 1991-1996, he studied biology (ecology and genetics) at Kyrgyz State National University. From 1996-1999, he was a postgraduate student at the Institute of Philosophy and Law of the National Academy of Sciences, Kyrgyzstan, working on the genesis of ecological consciousness.
Commonwealth of Independent States
1994-1996 - Cohort 3
Vladimir Andreevitch TREGOUBOV
Dr. Tregoubov has been involved in the organizing of several international youth environmental camps in Moscow, Minsk and Kalinin in the CIS as well as in Costa Rica. He currently works as an associate professor of economic and political geography at the Peoples' Friendship University, where he earned both his master's degree and doctorate in linguistics and economic planning. He received additional economic training in 1992 at the Stock Exchange Institute of Paris. He is a member of the Geographic Society of the Russian Academy of Sciences and has participated in several national and international conferences, including the All-Union Africanologists Conference in Moscow in 1984. Prior to his current post, he served as financial director for various Russian financial companies. Dr. Tregoubov is concerned with the financing of international environmental projects. He speaks fluent English, Spanish, French, and works part-time as a consultant on investments in the Russian stock market and market of state bonds.
Commonwealth of Independent States
1996-1998 - Cohort 5
Vladimir Nicolayevich STRELETSKI
Vladimir STRELETSKI is a senior research fellow at the Institute of Geography at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. In addition, he teaches historical geography at the University of the Russian Academy of Education. He also teaches a course entitled 'Geographical Environment and History of Civilizations', which he developed and now delivers at the Russian International Academy of Tourism. He is a specialist in the socioeconomic geography of Germany and other countries of Western Europe, and has studied the implications of foreign policies for countries undergoing market reforms.

V. Streletski is an author of scientific works on ethnocultural geography and ecology of local cultures, problems of international relations in Russia and CIS, and the international experience of ethnoterritorial conflicts. He has a Ph.D. in geographical sciences and is a graduate of Moscow State University.
Commonwealth of Independent States
2001-2003 - Cohort 10
Vladimir PAVLOV
Vladimir V. Pavlov is a general Editor of the first Russian media group focused on development of tourism, business, cultural and other relations between Russia, CIS and India, Nepal.

Vladimir is an expert in internet business and internet marketing and also provides consultancy in the use of high technologies in business and other purposes. For example, one of his projects (www.india.ru) became a most popular and respectable source of information about India in CIS.

Graduated in 1996 from the Moscow Power Engineering Institute (MPEI), Vladimir gained a degree of engineering of radio-electronics. He also graduated from the Moscow College with French language specialisation, Shehter's School of English language, IBM Basic Presentation course, Moscow School of Rapid Reading.

Vladimir has excellent skills in marketing gained in GetNet company (Moscow, IBM business partner in Russia) in the position of the deputy director, responsible for development, advertising and PR strategy of promotion of IBM products in Russia.

Vladimir worked for the Factor Oil Research Company where he planned, managed and realised unique oil well treatments for BEB oil company (in Germany) which successfully increased oil content.

He is interested in interational co-operation and relations. Residing in Moscow, Vladimir enjoys travelling and writing articles for travel magazines.
Commonwealth of Independent States
1998-2000 - Cohort 7
Vladislav LARIN
Europe
1996-1998 - Cohort 5
Volker ANGRES
Volker ANGRES manages the environment department at ZDF, one of the two big public German television companies.He is producing and presenting the weekly environmental program named 'ZDF.Umwelt'. For the bilingual german/french channel 'arte' he his responsible for the monthly magazin 'Environment'. Mr. Angres two previous positions have been at public television stations in the state of Bavaria (1st channel, ARD) and in the state of Rheinland-Pfalz, where he was part of the economics department. Most of his documentaries concern the current debates over macroeconomic policy. He aims to provide insight into the development of policy mechanisms that balance economic and environmental interests e.g. in the field of renewable energies. Mr. Angres is interested in searching for new approaches to conceptualize the role of the media in sustainable development. He has a degree in journalism.
Southern and Eastern Africa
1998-2000 - Cohort 7
Vuyiswa MAGOBOLO
Vuyiswa MAGOBOLO is an agronomist with the land development unit of the Institute of Social Development at the University of Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa. She is responsible for promoting urban agriculture and agricultural education. She is interested in working at the community level to develop guidelines and policies to protect the environment. She has a diploma in horticulture from Peninsula Technikon, Bellville, South Africa.
Indonesia
1993-1995 - Cohort 2
Wahyu MURYADI
Wahyu Muryadi received a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Airlangga. As a journalist, he covered the NAM and APEC conferences for the weekly publication Tempo, before it was banned in 1994. He was a freelance journalist and owns a production company specializing in Islamic programs. He is particularly interested in urban development, religious studies, and political science and as a LEAD Associate, he hopes to help build a network of information on environment and development issues. Since November 2001, he is pointed as a Managing Editor at Tempo Magazine. In 2002, he is taking master degree in broadcasting at the University of Indonesia. On 2005 he works in Tempo News Room, on 2006 for Koran tempo (TEMPO Group) and on January 2007 Wahyu promoted as Executive Editor for TEMPO Magazine.
Anglophone and West Africa
2010-2011 - Cohort 16
Wale Kolawole
Wale Kolawole is a financial professional and consultant with over 15 years experience in corporate and commercial banking as well as financial management. He is interested in sustainable banking particularly financing renewable energy projects in Africa for small and medium scale enterprises.
He graduated from the University of Ilorin, Nigeria with a bachelor’s and master's degree in accounting and business administration specialising in finance and financial management.
Canada
2009-2010 - Cohort 15
Wallace Beaton
Wallace Beaton is employed by Green Communities Canada as a School Travel Planning facilitator in the Ottawa area, working with schools, school boards, municipal officials, and other stakeholders to increase the number of children using active transportation (walking and biking) for the daily journey to school.

He has a diploma in Public Relations from Algonquin College (Ottawa), a Bachelor of Arts in History and Politics from Queen’s University at Kingston (Ontario), and a certificate in Études françaises et québécoises from Université Laval (Québec City).

His personal interest in environmental, sustainability and development issues dates back many years (in hindsight probably as far back as his adolescence!). Over time it has evolved through professional and voluntary experience with organizations as varied as World University Service of Canada (WUSC), The David Suzuki Foundation, the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), Climate Action Network Canada and the National Round Table on the Environment & Economy (NRTEE). He has reached a stage in his career where he wishes to deepen his knowledge and understanding of these inter-related issues as well as expand his skills set. He believes becoming a LEAD fellow is helping him fulfill that objective.

Beaton is married with two children, a member of Ecology Ottawa, immediate past chair of his local community association, and an active choral singer.