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True North: Adapting Infrastructure to Climate Change in Northern Canada – Experts

Expert Advisory Committee

Heather Auld
Associate Director
Adaptation and  Impacts Research Division
Environment Canada

Earle Baddaloo
Director
Environmental  Protection (Iqaluit)
Government of Nunavut

Jackie Bourgeois
NRTEE Adaptation  Committee Member

Ian Burton
Scientist Emeritus
Adaptation and  Impacts Research Division
Environment Canada

David Chernushenko (Chair)
(NRTEE Vice Chair),  President
Green and Gold Inc.

Ian R. Church (Associate  Chair)
Chair
Canadian IPY National  Committee

Darrel Danyluk
Chair
Public  Infrastructure Engineering Vulnerability Committee
Canadian Council of  Professional Engineers

Cindy Dickson
Director
Circumpolar  Relations
Council of Yukon First Nations

Don Lemmen
Research Manager
Climate Change  Impacts and Adaptation Directorate
Natural Resources Canada

Darcie Matthiessen (Alternate)
Climate Change  Coordinator
Circumpolar  Relations
Council of Yukon First Nations

Gordon A. McBean
Director
Institute for Catastrophic  Loss Reduction
The University of Western    Ontario

Nancy Olewiler
Director
Public Policy  Forum, and
Professor of  Economics
Department of  Economics, Public Policy Program
Simon Fraser   University

Bob Page
(NRTEE Chair);  TransAlta Professor
Environmental  Management and Sustainability
Institute for  Sustainable Energy, Environment and Economy
University of Calgary

Greg Paoli
Consultant
Decisionalysis  Risk Consultants Inc.

Robert Tremblay
Executive  Director
Road Safety and  Special Projects
Insurance Bureau  of Canada

Lisa Van Buren
Manager
Climate Change  Adaptation
Environment and  Renewable Resources Directorate
Indian and  Northern Affairs Canada

Gary Webster
Assistant Deputy  Minister
Regional  Integration Branch – Assistant Deputy Minister’s Office
Infrastructure Canada

Leslie Whitby
Director
Environment and  Renewable Resources Directorate
Indian and  Northern Affairs

Bill Wyness
Senior Technical  Officer
Architectural  and Structural Technical Support Section
Asset Management  Division, Public Works and Services
Government of  the Northwest Territories

Eleanor Young
Director
Municipal and  Community Affairs Department
Government  of the Northwest Territories