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Members of the Advisory Council
Current members of the Advisory Council are:
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Hon. David Crombie
The Hon. David Crombie is the President of David Crombie and Associates, the Chair of Toronto Lands Corporation, and past Chair of Ontario Place. He is the immediate past President and CEO of the Canadian Urban Institute. He is also a past mayor of the City of Toronto and a Privy Councillor. Mr. Crombie was the first Chancellor of Ryerson University and is the recipient of honorary doctorates of law from the University of Toronto and the University of Waterloo. Mr. Crombie is an Officer of the Order of Canada.
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David R. Cameron
David R. Cameron is the Chair of and a Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He has held a number of senior government positions in both the federal and Ontario civil services. He continues to advise on a wide range of governmental issues.
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Dr. Marlyn Cook
Dr. Marlyn Cook is presently Chief of Staff with Weeneebayko General Hospital in Moose Factory, Ontario. Dr. Cook is Cree and a member of the Grand Rapids First Nation in Northern Manitoba. She has practised medicine in the Mohawk community of Akwesasne, in Sioux Lookout Zone and in a number of northern Aboriginal communities in Manitoba. She is active in her community serving as an advisor and Board member to a number of organizations. Dr. Cook is known for her work blending Western and Traditional medicine, and has been involved with sharing this knowledge with medical students and doctors throughout Canada. Her belief is that healing needs to be focused on all aspects of the person – spiritual, mental, physical and emotional.
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Frederick Gilbert
Frederick Gilbert is the President and Vice-Chancellor of Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario. He also serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Thunder Bay Regional Research Institute and Chair of the Board of Directors of the Northern Ontario School of Medicine. As well, he is a member of the Advisory Board of the Mowat Centre for Policy Innovation. Dr. Gilbert has had an extensive teaching, research and administrative career in the United States and Canada at Colorado State University, the University of Northern British Columbia, Washington State University, the University of Guelph and the University of Maine, and also has held several environmental and wildlife management public service appointments and positions.
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Rudyard Griffiths
Rudyard Griffiths is an author, public commentator and advisor to various not-for-profit foundations and organizations in Canada and abroad. Mr. Griffiths is the co-founder of the Dominion Institute (a national charity dedicated to the promotion of civic literacy), the co-founder of the Salon Speakers Series and a co-organizer of the Munk Debates (Canada’s premiere debate series). In 2006, Mr. Griffiths was recognized by the Globe and Mail as one of Canada’s Top 40 under 40. He sits on a variety of not-for-profit boards and is a columnist with the National Post. He is the author of Who We Are: A Citizen’s Manifesto published by Douglas & McIntyre in 2009. Mr. Griffiths holds a degree from the University of Toronto and a Master of Philosophy from Emmanuel College in Cambridge, UK.
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Eva Ligeti
Eva Ligeti is the Executive Director of the Clean Air Partnership, a non-profit organization with a mandate to make Toronto more environmentally sustainable and a world leader in clean air. A lawyer, she served as Ontario's first Environmental Commissioner from 1994 to 1999. Ms. Ligeti serves on the Council of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities' Green Municipal Fund, is a member of the Province of Ontario's Expert Panel on Climate Change Adaptation, and is a co-chair of the Greening Greater Toronto Task Force. She teaches Environmental Law in the graduate program in Environmental Science at the University of Toronto.
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Derek Lister
Derek Lister is Professor Emeritus in the Chemical Engineering Department at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, where he also holds the Research Chair in Nuclear Engineering. His main research interests are in the areas of chemistry and corrosion associated with nuclear systems, and he holds positions on a number of national and international committees advising government and industry.
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Dougal McCreath
Dougal McCreath is the Director of the School of Engineering and a Professor of Civil and Mining Engineering at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario. A Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada, he has wide teaching, research and international consulting interests, ranging from the design of deep underground excavations to the recovery and sustainability of damaged eco-systems. He has served on two Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency review panels dealing with nuclear related issues.
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Donald Obonsawin
Donald Obonsawin is the founder and President of Directions, a management consulting company. From 2003 to 2007, he was President and CEO of Jonview Canada Inc., Canada's largest receptive tour operator. Prior to that, he had been Deputy Minister of seven Ontario government ministries over a 15-year period. He also held senior positions with the federal departments of Indian Affairs and Northern Development Canada, and Health and Welfare Canada. Mr. Obonsawin is Abenaki and a member of the Odanak First Nation.
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