Comisión para la Cooperación Ambiental

After almost 20 years working in the private sector, Dave Angus became president and chief executive officer of the Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce in 1999. Since then he has served as president of the Chamber of Commerce Executives of Canada and represented local chambers on the Canadian Chamber of Commerce’s Strategic Planning Committee. He currently sits on the board of directors of the American Chamber of Commerce Executives, representing Canadian chambers.

Under his leadership, the Winnipeg Chamber has increased its membership to the highest level in its history (more than 2,060 corporate members) and has not only been recognized by the Canadian Chamber of Commerce as an Accredited Chamber with Distinction but has also received recognition by the American Chamber of Commerce Executives for being in the top 10 Chambers for membership growth.

The Winnipeg Chamber has been instrumental in bringing a World Trade Centre to Winnipeg, establishing an international trade conference called ‘Centrallia’, establishing Leadership Winnipeg, and many other new initiatives. The current Manitoba BOLD campaign, a policy designed to mobilize the community behind bold ideas, has stimulated an interest in the area of sustainability and has led to the development of the Chamber’s Clean Energy Policy.

Lee Paddock is associate dean for environmental law studies. He is a member of the ABA Section on Environment, Energy and Resources Council. Prior to coming to GW Law, he was the director of Environmental Legal Studies at Pace University Law School from 2002 to 2007. Dean Paddock has served as a senior consultant for the National Academy of Public Administration on several projects since 1999. He also was a visiting scholar at the Environmental Law Institute between 1999 and 2002, focusing on clean air act, state-federal relationship, and enforcement issues.

Geoffrey Garver is currently an adjunct law professor at the University of Montreal in Montreal, Canada. He also serves as an independent environmental consultant for the Organization of American States and the Secretariat for Environmental Matters for the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement region. From 2000 to 2007, Mr. Garver served as director of Submissions on Enforcement Matters at the Commission for Environmental Cooperation for North America. From 1989 to 1993 and 1995 to 2000, Mr. Garver was a trial attorney and then became acting assistant chief in the US Department of Justice, Environment and Natural Resources Division.

From 1993 to 1995, Mr. Garver served as a special assistant and senior policy counsel to the assistant administrator for Enforcement and Compliance Assurance at the US Environmental Protection Agency. Mr. Garver was a law clerk from 1987 to 1989 to then-Chief Judge Conrad K. Cyr in the United States District Court for the District of Maine. He holds a BS from Cornell University, a JD from the University of Michigan Law School, and is currently pursuing an LLM and a PhD at McGill University.

Victor Lichtinger has a degree in economics from the UAM University, Xochimilco Campus, and a MSc and PhD in natural resources economics from Stanford University in California.

He has served as a consultant in various private companies, associations and Chambers of Commerce, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, domestic and international NGOs, governments of several federal entities and various United Nations agencies including the UNDP and UNEP, among others.

He was also appointed Ambassador of the City of Mexico on Climate Change in 2010 and served as Mexican Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources (Semarnat), from 2000 to 2003. He was the first executive director of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation of North America in Montreal, Canada, from 1994-1998; board member of the China Sustainable Development Council; and advisor on environmental issues to the Chinese government from 1992 to 1998. He was the general coordinator of environment at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Mexico, where he negotiated various international treaties and acted as coordinator for Mexico’s position at the Rio Summit on Sustainable Development in 1992.

The Honourable Pauline Browes, P.C., from Ontario, has a long history of involvement in issues related to the environment and the economy at the federal, provincial and community levels. Ms. Browes was first elected to the Canadian Parliament in 1984 in the federal riding of Scarborough Centre. She served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of the Environment from 1986 to 1989, as Minister of State for the Environment from 1991 to 1993, and as Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development in 1993. During this time, Ms. Browes chaired a number of international delegations. She has travelled extensively attending and participating in global meetings.

Ms. Browes also served on Ontario’s Environmental Review Tribunal for 10 years, beginning in 1995. Among her many community and environmental advocacy activities, Ms. Browes has been a director of the Waterfront Regeneration Trust in Ontario since 1999. Ms. Browes was also appointed to Canada’s National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy (NRTEE) in October 2009.

Formerly an educator, Pauline Browes has a Bachelor of Arts (Political Science) from York University, Toronto and an Advanced Alternate Dispute Resolution and Mediation Certificate, University of Windsor.

Colin Robertson is a senior strategic advisor for McKenna, Long and Aldridge LLP, living in Ottawa, Canada, and working with the Canadian Council of Chief Executives. He is vice president and senior research fellow at the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute and a distinguished senior fellow at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University. He is vice chair of the board of Canada World Youth and a board member of the Conference of Defence Associations Institute and serves on the advisory board of the North American Research Partnership. Robertson is a past president of the National Capital Branch of the Canadian International Council and an honorary captain in the Royal Canadian Navy, assigned to the Strategic Communications Directorate. He is a regular contributor on foreign affairs to The Globe and Mail.

Recognized as an early thought Leader in Sustainability, Alberto realized the importance of sustainability in the early years of his career. He was at the forefront of advising governmental entities and corporations of sustainability’s economic impact on their bottom line. He served as president of the Monterrey campus of the Monterrey Institute of Technology for 10 years, during which he placed an extraordinary importance on the development of strategies that would integrate sustainability and innovation with education, research and business.

Serena Wilson is the director of the George J. Mitchell Scholarship Program, a highly competitive scholarship that sends post-graduates to study for one year in Ireland or Northern Ireland. An environmental lawyer by training, Ms Wilson was appointed by President Clinton for a three-year term as a member of the Joint Public Advisory Committee. While at the Environmental Protection Agency, she coordinated trade and environment policy and the US involvement in the NAFTA environmental side agreement. Previously, she was chief of the Biodiversity Team in the Office of Protected Resources for the National Marine Fisheries Service, as well as an International Trade Specialist at the US Department of Commerce. As an adjunct professor, she taught environmental law at American University, Washington College of Law.

Jonathan Waterhouse is the director of the Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council (YRITWC), a non-profit organization made up of 70 Tribes and First Nations, created to preserve and protect the Yukon Watershed and Native cultures.

During his tenure at YRITWC, Mr. Waterhouse worked to develop the BackHaul Program that removed millions of pounds of recyclables and hazardous waste from the Yukon watershed. Prior to joining YRITWC, Mr. Waterhouse had oversight over management, operations, and financial matters for Green Connection (2003-2004), Alaska Airlines (2000-2003), and Pavlof Services, Inc. (1995-2000). From 1997-2000, Mr. Waterhouse served as City Councilman for the City of Cold Bay, Alaska.

In 1995, Mr. Waterhouse retired from a twenty-year career in the United States Navy as a decorated Chief Petty Officer. Mr. Waterhouse is an advisory board member and community development director for the Alaska-Sudan Medical Project, which focuses on building medical clinics and installing clean water systems in Southern Sudan.

Scott Vaughan began serving as president of the International Institute for Sustainable Development in April 2013. Prior to joining IISD, he was Canada’s federal commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development for five years, where he informed Canada’s Parliament of such issues as climate adaptation and mitigation, the cumulative impacts of oil sands, offshore oil spill preparedness and response, freshwater management and regulatory enforcement. Previously, he was the director of the Department of Sustainable Development of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Washington, DC; held an appointment as a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; served as the head of economics at the NAFTA Commission for Environmental Cooperation; and was a counselor at the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva. He also held various positions with the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), including initiating both the UNEP Financial Initiative and UNEP’s work on trade issues.

Isabel Studer holds a MA and PhD in international relations from Johns Hopkins University-School of Advanced International Studies and a degree in international relations from El Colegio de México. She is founding director of the Global Institute for Sustainability, a joint initiative of Tecnológico de Monterrey and Arizona State University, and director of the Greening of Value Chains Program (a MIF-Tec de Monterrey program). She is also a professor in the Business School of Tec de Monterrey and Coordinator of the «Green Business» Initiative. A Fulbright and Ford Foundation scholar, she also directed and founded the Center for Dialogue and Analysis on North America (CEDAN).

Carroll Muffett is president and CEO of the Center for International Environmental Law, a nonprofit organization that uses the power of law to protect the environment, promote human rights and ensure a just and sustainable society. Prior to joining CIEL, Mr Muffett served as executive director of the Climate Law and Policy Project and deputy campaigns director at Greenpeace USA. From 2000 to 2006, he was international counsel and senior director for International Conservation at Defenders of Wildlife, worked an attorney with Covington & Burling, and served as a legal fellow at CIEL. He has authored numerous articles and textbook chapters on national and international environmental policy and on the trade and environment debate. He is an adjunct associate professor of law at American University’s Washington College of Law, a member of IUCN’s Commission on Environmental Law, and serves on the board of directors for the Species Survival Network and the board of editors for the International Journal of Wildlife Law and Policy.

Adriana Nelly Correa Sandoval has had wide-ranging professional experience in consensus building, education and research. Correa Sandoval has been awarded the Rómulo Garza Award for Research twice (in 1997 and 2003), the Nuevo León Pro-Wildlife Merit Award (Education, 2008) and the “Women and Sustainability” Award (2011). The Planetario Alfa chose her as an environmental leader for the Green Revolution exhibition (2013).

She was Founding Director of the Andrés Marcelo Sada Chair at the Monterrey Institute of Technology (Tecnológico de Monterrey) (2001–2013) and  Director of Strategic Alliances at the Mario Molina Center for Strategic Studies (Centro Mario Molina de Estudios Estratégicos) (2013-2014).

Ms. Correa Sandoval has conducted research, managed projects and been a thesis director on basic ecology, valuation of ecosystem services, planning for sustainable development and land-use management. Moreover, she has made contributions as co-author and co-editor of the books: Tecnológico de Monterrey: un refugio para las aves (2010), Vida, ambiente y desarrollo en el siglo XXI and Ciencia ambiental y desarrollo sostenible (1997).

She participated in developing the Latin American input to the elaboration of the first international standard on sustainable water management (2010–2012). She coordinated, amongst other endeavors, the chapter on adaptative management of ecosystems and biodiversity in the Climate Change Action Program for Nuevo León (2008–2009), the Plan for Comprehensive Coastal Management of the Laguna Madre System of Tamaulipas (2004–2007) and Semarnat’s CCNDS Technical Commission for Environmental and Social Economic Policy for Sustainable Development (Comisión Técnica de Política Económica Ambiental y Social para el Desarrollo Sustentable) (2002–2007).

Ms. Correa-Sandoval has participated in some committees for the Mexico’s National Commission for Science and Technology (Conacyt). She represents academia in the technical board for ecological planning of the Cuenca de Burgos region; she sits on the Citizens’ Advisory Board of the Environmental and Natural Resources Protection Agency for the state of Nuevo León, and is member of the Technical-Scientific Subcouncil for the “Cumbres de Monterrey” National Park. A founding member of Pronatura Noreste, AC, she has been a member of its board of directors since 2008.

Since March 2002, she has been a Mexican representative on the CEC Joint Public Advisory Committee and serves as its chairperson for 2009.

Since November 2006, Donna Tingley has been a member of the Alberta Natural Resources Conservation Board, a quasi-judicial board that decides whether large, non-energy projects are in the public interest, and regulates confined feeding operations. While at the NRCB, she has also participated as a board member on the Surface Rights Board, Energy Resources Conservation Board and Alberta Energy and Utilities Board.

Before joining the NRCB, Donna served as executive director of two NGOs: the Clean Air Strategic Alliance from 1999 to 2006, and the Environmental Law Centre, where she was also staff counsel from 1984 to 1999. She studied law at the University of Calgary and has been a member of the Law Society of Alberta since 1981.

Ms Tingley has contributed to numerous advisory committees and boards and her work has been published in a number of professional publications. She was a member of JPAC from 1998 to 2004 and its chair in 2004.

A graduate of the University of Guadalajara and the University of Hamburg, Germany, in Spanish literature, Maite García has a MSc in environmental education from the University of Guadalajara and a PhD in education specializing in mediation pedagogy from the University of Veracruz and La Salle University of Costa Rica.

Dedicated to the research of environmental issues, she has specialized in the design of strategies for education, communication and management to address issues of environmental health, consumption and sustainable production and civic responsibility, from a theoretical and practical approach, seeking to engage and bring together key players to create innovative experiences through meaningful learning.

A founding member and current executive director of the Colectivo Ecologista Jalisco, A.C., since 1995 she has participated at the international level, in activities of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) and in various initiatives of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP).

Jeffrey J. Schott joined the Peterson Institute for International Economics in 1983 and is a senior fellow working on international trade policy and economic sanctions. During his tenure at the Institute, Schott was also a visiting lecturer at Princeton University (1994) and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University (1986–88). He was a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1982–83) and an official of the US Treasury Department (1974–82) in international trade and energy policy. During the Tokyo Round of multilateral trade negotiations, he was a member of the US delegation that negotiated the GATT Subsidies Code. Since January 2003, he has been a member of the Trade and Environment Policy Advisory Committee of the US government. He is also a member of the Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy of the US Department of State.

After almost 20 years working in the private sector, Dave Angus became president and chief executive officer of the Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce in 1999. Since then he has served as president of the Chamber of Commerce Executives of Canada and represented local chambers on the Canadian Chamber of Commerce’s Strategic Planning Committee. He currently sits on the board of directors of the American Chamber of Commerce Executives, representing Canadian chambers.

Under his leadership, the Winnipeg Chamber has increased its membership to the highest level in its history (more than 2,060 corporate members) and has not only been recognized by the Canadian Chamber of Commerce as an Accredited Chamber with Distinction but has also received recognition by the American Chamber of Commerce Executives for being in the top 10 Chambers for membership growth.

The Winnipeg Chamber has been instrumental in bringing a World Trade Centre to Winnipeg, establishing an international trade conference called ‘Centrallia’, establishing Leadership Winnipeg, and many other new initiatives. The current Manitoba BOLD campaign, a policy designed to mobilize the community behind bold ideas, has stimulated an interest in the area of sustainability and has led to the development of the Chamber’s Clean Energy Policy.

Janine Ferretti joined the Inter-American Development Bank in 2003 after she completed her term as executive director of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) of North America. During the ten years she worked at the CEC, she carried out initiatives related to trade and environment, biodiversity conservation, health and environment, enforcement of environmental law, public access to environmental information, and capacity building. She also oversaw independent fact-findings in response to public complaints related to non-enforcement of environmental laws. Before joining the CEC, Ms. Ferretti was executive director of Pollution Probe, a Canadian NGO, worked with the Environmental Liaison Centre International (ELCI) in Nairobi, Kenya, and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in Bonn, Germany. Ms. Ferretti holds an M.E.S. in environmental policy from York University (Toronto, Canada), and a bachelor in environmental studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Scott Vaughan began serving as president of the International Institute for Sustainable Development in April 2013. Prior to joining IISD, he was Canada’s federal commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development for five years, where he informed Canada’s Parliament of such issues as climate adaptation and mitigation, the cumulative impacts of oil sands, offshore oil spill preparedness and response, freshwater management and regulatory enforcement. Previously, he was the director of the Department of Sustainable Development of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Washington, DC; held an appointment as a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; served as the head of economics at the NAFTA Commission for Environmental Cooperation; and was a counselor at the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva. He also held various positions with the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), including initiating both the UNEP Financial Initiative and UNEP’s work on trade issues.

Irasema Coronado was appointed Executive Director of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC), effective 1 December 2012.

Irasema Coronado, PhD, was a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Texas at El Paso, and was also an affiliated faculty member in the Environmental Science and Engineering PhD program. At the university, she served as an associate provost (2008-2012), associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts (2006-2008), chair of the Political Science Department (2005-2006), and assistant professor of the Center for Inter-American and Border Studies (1999-2003). Dr. Coronado was also a Fulbright Scholar at the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez in Mexico (2004-2005), and a faculty member at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas (1995-1999).

Dr. Coronado has held other academic and visiting scholar positions at the University of Texas at San Antonio (1998-1999), the University of Arizona (1997 and 2001), El Colegio de la Frontera Norte in Sonora, Mexico (1992-1995), and Cochise College (1991). Dr. Coronado is currently a member of the boards of Frontera Women’s Foundation, the Coalition Against Violence Toward Women and Children on the Border, FEMAP (Mexican Federation of Private Associations), and the Paso Del Norte Health Foundation. Dr. Coronado holds a BA from the University of South Florida and an MA and PhD from the University of Arizona. Hispanic Business Magazine named her one of top 100 influential hispanics in the United States in October of 2010.