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Canada, Mexico and the United States cooperating to protect North America's shared environment.
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Canadian MembersLaurent N. Benarrous Laurent Benarrous works for the Corporate Solutions Group of Jones Lang LaSalle in Montréal, where he provides specialized real-estate consulting services to large-scale businesses. Mr. Benarrous holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration and a certificate in finance (real-estate concentration) from Montreal’s École des hautes études commerciales. He sits on the Professional Inspection Committee of the Association des courtiers et agents immobiliers du Québec and on the boards of directors of Aéroports de Montréal and the Montréal Harbourfront Corporation. He is also vice-chairman of the board of the Héma-Québec Foundation. In addition to his involvement on various boards, Mr. Benarrous is a member of the Montréal Economic Institute, Civitas, and the Banff Forum, a group of about one hundred emerging leaders whose goal is to improve the lives of Canadians. As a well-known specialist in commercial real-estate, Mr. Benarrous frequently gives media interviews on the topic and is regularly asked to speak at conferences. David Emerson David Emerson was a Member of Parliament from 2004 to 2008 and held several cabinet positions, including the portfolios of Industry, International Trade, and Foreign Affairs. Tim J. Hearn Mr. Hearn was born in Regina, Saskatchewan and is a graduate of the University of Manitoba. In 2002, he assumed the position of president of Imperial Oil Limited and shortly thereafter was appointed chairman, president, and chief executive officer. He retired as chairman and chief executive officer on 31 March 2008. Mr. Hearn is immediate past chairman of the Board of Directors of the C.D. Howe Institute, a member of the boards of directors of the Royal Bank of Canada and Viterra Inc., and is a past member of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives. Mr. Hearn co-chairs a multi-year, fund-raising campaign for the University of Alberta and chairs the Tyndale University fund-raising campaign. For a number of years, Mr. Hearn has served on several community boards and committees. He chairs the Board of Directors of the Calgary Homeless Foundation and the Advisory Board of the new Public Policy School, and is a member of the Dean’s Medical School Advisory Boards, both at the University of Calgary. Nancy Southern Nancy Southern is president and chief executive officer of ATCO Ltd. and Canadian Utilities Limited. She was appointed to these positions in 2003 and in 2008 was also appointed deputy chair of both. Previously she had been co-chair and chief executive officer since January 2000. Ms. Southern serves on the boards of all the ATCO Group subsidiary companies. She is also a director of the Bank of Montreal, where she serves on the Risk Review Committee, AKITA Drilling Ltd. and Sentgraf Enterprises Limited. She is a member of the Business Council, Canadian Council of Chief Executives, North American Competitiveness Council, Chancellor’s Club, University of Calgary and the C.D. Howe Institute. Ms. Southern was born and raised in Calgary, Alberta, where she studied economics and commerce at the University of Calgary. She also serves as executive vice president of Spruce Meadows, renowned as one of the world’s finest show jumping facilities. In 2006, Ms. Southern was selected Business Woman of the Year by the Consumer’s Choice Awards. Ms. Southern is married and has three children. Glen Wright Glen Wright has had a successful career in both the public and private sectors, spanning the domains of strategic planning, project management, corporate restructuring, health care, health, safety, and disability, and disease management. Mr. Wright was the founder of Wright Mogg and Associates Ltd. in 1980, building the company into one of the top ten actuarial employee benefit consulting companies in Canada over a 20-year period. He was also the founding chairman of World Access Canada in partnership with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of the National Capital Area, Washington, DC. He also has experience with Crown Corporations, including the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Hydro One Inc. and the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (Ontario). Mr. Wright has won numerous awards, including Honorary Alumnus, Wilfrid Laurier University; Alumnus of Distinction Award, Durham College; and was a recipient of the Canada 125th Anniversary Medal for outstanding community service. Mr. Wright is presently chairman and chief executive officer of Gpark Consulting, Inc. American MembersPatricia Clarey Patricia Clarey is Senior Vice President and Chief Regulatory and External Relations Officer for Health Net, Inc., a publicly traded managed care company based on Los Angeles, California. Prior to joining Health Net, she was chief of staff to California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in Sacramento, California. Ms. Clarey has 25 years of healthcare, natural resources and insurance experience both in the public and private sectors. Prior to joining Governor Schwarzenegger, she was vice president of government relations at Health Net, Inc., vice president of public affairs at Transamerica Corporation and president of the Transamerica Foundation in San Francisco, California. In addition, Ms. Clarey had served as deputy chief of staff to California Governor Pete Wilson, and as deputy director of the National Park Service and congressional liaison at the United States Department of the Interior, both based in Washington, DC. She also held government relations positions with Chevron Corporation and Ashland Oil, Inc. Ms. Clarey is a former board member of the California Foundation on the Environment and the Economy. She received her master's degree in public administration from Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a Bachelor of Science degree from Union College in Schenectady, New York. She was appointed to the Joint Public Advisory Committee of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation of North America in 2003. Dinkerrai Desai Dinkerrai Desai has over 30 years experience serving the government and industry in the field of environmental science and engineering. He has served as the environmental coordinator at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, since 1981, where he is in charge of programs and contractors that assure environmental compliance support with pollution prevention initiatives, energy conservation and underground storage tank management. Mr. Desai's particular areas of expertise include remediation, pollution prevention, national environment policy act requirements, natural and cultural resources management, solid waste management, Clean Air Act requirements, brown field development and water quality requirements. He has published papers on various aspects of environmental science and has received several awards from the US Army. In addition, he received a citation for meritorious achievement in support of the Department of Defense's Environmental Quality Program during 1990. Mr. Desai holds an M.S. degree in environmental engineering, a B.S. degree in civil engineering and is a registered Professional Engineer in New Jersey. He was appointed to the Joint Public Advisory Committee (JPAC) of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) of North America in 2003. Jane Gardner Ms. Gardner is manager and counsel, Remediation Programs, Corporate Environmental Programs (CEP), General Electric Company, at GE's corporate headquarters in Fairfield, Connecticut. She oversees the worldwide environmental remediation program for CEP. Ms. Gardner has over 20 years' experience in environmental law, focusing on hazardous waste cleanup and policy issues. She is a member of the National Advisory Committee for Environmental Policy and Technology (NACEPT), a public advisory group to the US Environmental Protection Agency, on the subject of Superfund reform. From 1990 until 1993, she was the lead counsel for General Electric Company, CEP, Mid-Atlantic/Southeast Region, stationed in King of Prussia, PA. She was Assistant Regional Counsel with the United States Environmental Protection Agency (Region VIII) from 1985-1990 with national expertise in the areas of federal facility environmental compliance and Indian law. Ms. Gardner graduated from Northwestern University with a B.S. in Speech in 1975 and from Harvard University (Ed.M.) in 1977. She completed one year of a doctorate at Harvard in 1981, and received her law degree from the University of Colorado in 1985. Ms. Gardner has been admitted to the bar in Colorado, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut. She was appointed to the Joint Public Advisory Committee (JPAC) of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) of North America in 2003 and elected JPAC's chair in 2005. Ralph B. Marquez Ralph Marquez of Texas City, Texas, served two terms as an appointee to the Texas Natural Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) before retiring from the Commission at the end of March 2006. He currently works as an independent consultant, providing services in environmental strategies and policies. Prior to his appointment to the TCEQ, Marquez served on several TNRCC (predecessor to TCEQ) advisory committees and task forces. He is a registered professional engineer in Texas and has been a vice-chair of the Texas Chemical Council environmental committee, a board member of the Gulf Coast Water Authority, and a member of the State of Texas Waste Reduction Advisory Committee. He also served as chairman of the City of Texas City Environmental Advisory Board. From 1963 to 1993, Mr. Marquez worked for the Monsanto Company in various capacities, including as an internal company consultant for technical, regulatory and legislative environmental issues. He has a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Texas and a master's degree in future studies from the University of Houston-Clear Lake. While serving on the TCEQ, Marquez participated in the US Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Air Act Advisory Committee and the Governmental Advisory Committee to the Commission for Environmental Cooperation. He also has served as chair of the Environmental Council of States Air Committee and the Regulatory Reinvention Work Group. Mr. Marquez has been heavily involved in issues related to air, the Mexican border, and regulatory innovation during his terms on the commission. Mr. Marquez was appointed as a US representative to the Joint Public Advisory Committee of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation in the spring of 2006. Patricia McDonald Patricia McDonald is a consultant in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, with more than 30 years of political, communications, and natural resources policy and management experience. She spent four summers as a seasonal backcountry ranger in Grand Teton National Park, and the intervening winters as a reporter and photographer for a local newspaper and doing marketing for Grand Targhee Ski Area. She then moved to Washington, DC, where she worked on Capitol Hill as chief of staff for US Senator Malcolm Wallop (R-WY), US Representative Barbara Cubin (R-WY), and US Senator Conrad Burns (R-MT), and as the Republican staff director of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. She served in the Reagan-Bush Administration as the western representative to Secretary of the Interior William P. Clark, and in the Bush-Cheney Administration as chief of staff of the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) within the Department of Labor. She also worked as a lobbyist for western cattle and sheep ranchers and for the North American ski industry, assisted various political campaigns and ran her own lobbying firm (McDonald and Associates), specializing in outdoor recreation consulting. She graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in journalism. She was appointed to the Joint Public Advisory Committee (JPAC) of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) of North America in 2003. Mexican MembersAdriana Nelly Correa Sandoval (Chair) Serving on the faculty of the Tecnológico de Monterrey where she holds the Andres Marcelo Sada Chair for Conservation and Sustainable Development at the Center for Environmental Quality, Adriana Nelly Correa-Sandoval has pursued a career in environmental education and research. She has twice been awarded the Romulo Garza Award for research (1997 and 2003) and in June 2008, she received the Nuevo León Wild Flora and Fauna Merit Award for distinguished achievement in education. She has published several articles on topics related to ecosystem services, conservation, biodiversity, environment and development and has contributed as co-author or co-editor to the books, Vida, Ambiente y Desarrollo en el Siglo XXI and Ciencia Ambiental de Desarrollo Sostenible. Gustavo Alanís-Ortega Mr. Alanís-Ortega received his law degree from the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City, where he now teaches the environmental law course at the law school. He is also co-director of the university's post-graduate diploma program in environmental law and policy. Mr. Alanis holds a master's degree in international law from the Washington College of Law, American University, Washington, DC. Since August 1993, he has been president of the Centro Mexicano de Derecho Ambiental (Mexican Environmental Law Center—CEMDA), a public interest environmental law firm based in Mexico City. He is also active as a columnist for Reforma, one of Mexico's most widely read and influential newspapers. He is a member of the seventh cohort of the Leadership on Environment and Development Program (LEAD). Mr. Alanís-Ortega serves on the boards of directors of Appleseed-México and the Inter-American Association for Environmental Defense (AIDA), and is a member of Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide (ELAW), the Climate Change Advisory Committee in Mexico, and the Environmental Law Advisory Group at the Department of Sustainable Development of the Organization of American States (OAS). In April 2008 he was appointed by the Mexico City Legislative Assembly to serve on the Citizen Board of the Office of the Environmental and Zoning Prosecutor (Procuraduría Ambiental y del Ordenamiento Territorial—PAOT). Also in 2008, he was appointed to a second term on the CEC’s Joint Public Advisory Committee (JPAC). Martín Alberto Gutiérrez Lacayo An attorney specializing in environmental law who graduated from Universidad Iberoamericana, Martín Gutiérrez has been known in recent years as the creator of private land conservation schemes in Mexico, including the development of the first ecological easement agreements. Currently general director of Pronatura México, A.C., and consultant to the World Bank in land conservation and transversal integration, he was for 10 years director of Pronatura’s National Land Conservation Program. Carlos Sandoval Olvera Civil engineer and president of the Mexican National Council of Industrial Ecologists (Consejo Nacional de Industriales Ecologistas de México, A.C.-CONIECO). Based in Mexico City, this nongovernmental business organization of more than 1,000 small and medium-sized industrialists promotes the reduction of pollution in industrial processes and Mexican industry's support for the environment. Carlos Sandoval, who holds a master's degree in Administrative Science, also is currently a member of the following advisory boards: Mexico City Metropolitan Environmental Commission; Council for Pollution Reduction and Environmental Evaluation of the Government of the Federal District (CONSERVA); Advisory Committee for the Urban Strategy Initiative of the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank and the Andean Development Corporation; the International Union of Air Pollution Prevention and Environmental Protection Associations in Brighton, England; the National Preparatory Committee for the Johannesburg Summit; Inter-American Program for Environmental Technology Cooperation in the Organization of American States (OAS); Transparency Working Group in the Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources (Secretaría del Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales-Semarnat); and Business Coordinating Council. In 2002 Mr. Sandoval was appointed to the Joint Public Advisory Committee of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation of North America. Rodolfo Lacy Rodolfo Lacy graduated as an environmental engineer from the Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM) in Mexico City and took a masters degree in environmental planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was awarded a fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation in the Leadership for the Environment and Development (LEAD) program. He is the founding president of the Environmental Engineers Association of Mexico, the former executive director of environment pollution prevention and control in the Mexico City government, and the former head of advisors to the Minister of Environment and Natural Resources in Mexico. Currently, Rodolfo Lacy is a researcher and coordinator of strategic studies on energy and environment projects at the Mario Molina Center. He coordinated and edited the first state of the environment report in Mexico and is the author of the book, Air Quality in the Valley of Mexico (La calidad del aire en el valle de México). |