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NEW PUBLIC CONSORTIA FOR METROPOLITAN GOVERNANCE (NPC) PROJECT
Workshop:
Metropolitan Governance Mechanisms for Institutional Collaboration
and Civil Society Participation
14-19 October 2007
Vancouver, Canada
Biographies - Canadians
Leonora Angeles
Associate Professor Leonora Angeles is a joint faculty member at the School of Community
and Regional Planning and the Women's Studies Programme. She is also faculty research
associate at the Centre for Human Settlements, the Centre for Research on Women's
Studies and Gender Relations, and the Centre for Research on Southeast Asian Studies. Her
continuing research interests are feminist perspectives on international development, gender
and globalization, agrarian issues, human development and security linkages, states and
elites in Southeast Asia. Her current research projects are globalization and feminization of
export manufacturing (garments and semi-conductors industries) in SEA; gender, poverty
reduction and bureaucracy in the Philippines and Vietnam; and gender analysis social capital
and good governance in participatory development projects.
Jason Barton
Jason Barton is pursuing a PhD in Land and Food Systems, examining the economic,
ecological, and social impacts of production and trade in ethanol in Brazil and the United
States. This comes after four years living in São Paulo, Brazil, where he worked as a high
school English teacher at an international school and participated in various environmental
and community development capacities.
Ashley Booth
Ashley studied International Development and Hispanic Languages, at which time she
learned Portuguese from an enthusiastic ‘Mineira’ who inspired her to spend time in Brazil.
Ashley and Jay O’Hara are old friends from McGill. Ashley was an NPC intern last year and
she and Jay O’Hara helped the project by producing two videos. They will be working
together with the NPC project in Belo Horizonte during 2007-2008 helping to organize youth
mapping workshops and create more videos documenting Belo’s path towards new
governance.
Peter Boothroyd
B.A. (Geography, U. of Toronto), M.A. (Sociology, U. of Alberta). Peter Boothroyd is a
development planner whose work focuses on understanding and enhancing the potential of
community-based planning to contribute to sustainability and equity. Prior to joining UBC, he
was a consultant on urban policy, social planning, impact assessment, and community
development. In the last 15 years, he has led UBC projects funded by the Canadian
International Development Agency to build planning capacity in Thailand, Vietnam and Brazil.
Through these experiences, he has become increasingly interested in the development role
of universities.
Isobel Donovan
Isobel Donovan has worked for over 30 years with the provincial government, and has an
extensive background in social policy initiatives, including income support, housing, labour
market analysis, immigration, and family justice issues. In 2002, Isobel was recruited as the
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Executive Coordinator for the new Vancouver Agreement, a formal Agreement between the
governments of Canada, British Columbia and Vancouver to promote sustainable social,
economic and community development in the City of Vancouver. During her tenure with the
Vancouver Agreement, Isobel was called on to be a project manager for a similar initiative in
Santiago, Chile, which was funded by CIDA through the Institute of Public Administration in
Canada. Although currently retired, she is still active in this project. Isobel now splits her
time between homes in Hawaii and Vancouver, where she continues to participate as a
consultant for multi-sectoral initiatives in the community.
Nathan Edelson
Nathan Edelson is a Senior Planner with the City of Vancouver Planning Department. Since
1995 he has worked with others in the three levels of government and the area’s diverse
communities on the complex issues facing the Downtown Eastside including Gastown,
Victory Square, and Strathcona as well as Chinatown. During this period, he has managed
many economic development, land use, housing, health care, public realm and public safety
initiatives. Prior to working in the inner city, Nathan was the lead planner for the Joyce
SkyTrain Station Area, the Downtown South high density residential community, and the
Granville Street revitalization program.
Tania Kajner
Tania Kajner is Manager of the City-Region Studies Centre at the University of Alberta. She
has more than 10 years experience working in the public sector in a variety of roles, from
senior consultant to educator to funding officer. Tania has researched and developed policy
options in a variety of settings, from high level policy and background documents shared at
senior levels of government, to local operational policies focused on front line service
delivery. Using the principles of community development, Tania has assisted many
communities of interest in researching their needs, linking them to resources, and
developing plans of action. Her work has spanned a wide variety of topic areas including
youth and student employment, homelessness, employment for persons with disabilities,
workplace violence, crime prevention through social development, and women's equality.
Tania holds a Master's Degree in Philosophy from McMaster University and a Bachelor's
Degree in Philosophy from the University of Alberta.
Hugh Kellas
Hugh Kellas is Manager of the Policy and Planning Department for Metro Vancouver, a
federation of 21 municipalities providing metropolitan services to the region’s 2.2 million
residents. The Department’s activities, overseen by Hugh and a co-manager, include
planning for regional water, liquid waste and solid waste utilities; regional growth planning;
air quality management; social housing policy; and other metropolitan management
activities. Hugh has been involved in projects in Brazil on watershed planning and air quality.
He participated in the Recife workshop for the New Public Consortia Project. Achieving
consensus among municipalities and other organizations responsible for metropolitan
development is a large part of Hugh’s work. He will speak about the mechanisms used to
enable dialogue and support collaboration in Metro Vancouver.
Dr. Douglas Knight
Dr. Knight is Director of the City-Region Studies Centre & Government Studies at the Faculty
of Extension, University of Alberta. He brings over 30 years of experience in administration,
research, and teaching to the City-Region Studies Centre. His experience includes serving as
Superintendent of several public school systems across Canada and teaching in many
university programs. Dr. Knight has worked as an instructor with the Supervisory and
Leadership Development Program, Executive Education, School of Business, U of A,
providing courses to the City of Edmonton, Government of the Northwest Territories,
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provincial and federal government employees, and the private sector. He also taught
graduate and undergraduate programs with the Faculty of Education at the University of
Alberta, the University of Moncton, Royal Roads University and Athabasca University.
Dr. Knight earned a BA in geography from McGill University, a BEd in secondary education
and MEd in educational administration from the University of New Brunswick, and a Ph.D. in
educational administration from the University of Alberta. He is the co-editor of a textbook,
Understanding Change in Education, and has published many articles in educational journals.
Susan Kurbis
Susan Kurbis works locally and internationally in community and environmental education
with a special emphasis on children and youth engagement. Susan's key area of interest is
in building collaborative mechanisms for the engagement of children, youth and other
vulnerable populations in civic/metropolitan decision making processes. Susan has a degree
in political science and a masters degree in education, is the senior manager for the
Vancouver based, Environmental Youth Alliance (EYA) and is a member of the City of
Vancouver's Food Policy Council. Susan also sits on the board of directors for several
community development organizations. Susan has worked with the Centre for Human
Settlements and Brazilian partners in securing the engagement of youth in the NPC project.
Susan/EYA sponsored the Canadian Professional Abroad program which sponsored 3
Canadian interns to Brazil in Year One (Foreign Affairs Canada), and is currently managing
the Youth International Internship Program for 3 new interns in year 2 (CIDA and IDRC).
Tom Laviolette
Director and member of the Management Team at the PHS Community Services Society. His
current responsibility is as Project Manager of New Developments. Tom has worked in
Vancouver's Downtown Eastside neighbourhood for seventeen years as a community
development planner for various NGOs. In a low-income neighbourhood, Tom's work in the
Downtown Eastside has focused on the development and advocacy of public policy initiatives
(e.g. housing, public realm) that aim to improve the lives of its marginalized residents. Tom
has an MA in Planning from UBC, 1996, and a BA in Planning from the University of Waterloo,
1990.
Andrew Lawrence
Andrew is Communications Manager for the New Public Consortia for Metropolitan
Governance project based at the University of British Columbia. He has a master degree in
publishing from Simon Fraser University and spent the last four years in Thailand working on
children’s rights and protection of children from commercial sexual exploitation.
Ken Lyotier
Ken was born in North Vancouver in 1947. He has lived and worked in the Downtown
Eastside since the late 1970's. During the past 12 years Ken has managed United We Can
bottle depot, a successful self-sustaining social enterprise in Vancouver's inner-city. His
group has also developed several similar initiatives, including a street cleaning project, a
used bicycle sales and repair shop, a used computer sales shop, a recycled houseplant shop,
an addiction recovery group and a commercial container collection service. His group was
also instrumental in the early development and establishment of the Potluck Cafe, a local
non-profit restaurant.
United We Can currently offers permanent employment to more than 20 Downtown
Eastsiders and employs hundreds of others on a part-time casual basis. United We Can now
recycles over 20 million containers each year and has an annual budget of $2,500,000. More
than 90% of the organization's revenues are generated from its businesses.
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David Marshall
David Marshall, a professional engineer, was appointed Executive Director of the Fraser
Basin Council in May 1997, after serving in the same capacity since 1993 with the Council’s
predecessor organization, the Fraser Basin Management Board. Reporting to the Council’s
36-member Board of Directors, Mr. Marshall assists the Council in carrying out its mandate
of facilitating implementation of the Basin’s Charter for Sustainability.
Mr. Marshall has participated in coastal zone management, watershed management,
environmental assessment and sustainable tourism development initiatives in the Caribbean,
Indonesia, the Philippines, Russia, Thailand, China and South Korea. He is an adjunct
professor at Simon Fraser University and in this capacity has taught a Masters course on
Environmental and Social Impact Assessment. Mr. Marshall has authored many publications
and made numerous presentations on the subjects of environmental assessment,
sustainability and watershed management. He was President of the International Association
for Impact Assessment from 1989 to 1990.
Jay O’Hara
Jay majored in Commerce, but decided marketing social justice more important than the
corporate world. He minored in Music Technology, which opened up the digital world and
inspired him to learn how to manipulate editing software and create films. Jay and Ashley
Booth are old friends from McGill. Last year, Jay helped the NPC project by producing two
videos in Brazil while Ashley was an NPC intern. They will be working together with the NPC
project in Belo Horizonte during 2007-2008 helping to organize youth mapping workshops
and create more videos documenting Belo’s path towards new governance.
Tony Pellett
Born, raised and educated in BC, including at UBC School of Community and Regional
Planning. Worked in transportation planning for the City of Vancouver in the mid 1960s.
Worked with a consultant planning firm in the late 1960s to mid 1970s, doing work for local
governments and private clients. In 1973, he prepared the agricultural land reserve plan for
a regional district on Vancouver Island and became closely involved with the farmland
preservation program. From 1975 to 1984, Mr. Pellett was planning director for the Regional
District of Columbia-Shuswap, successfully introducing an introductory level of community
and regional planning to an area not very receptive to the concept of planning. The
Agricultural Land Reserve was the instrument which helped the local politicians realize that it
was time for planning.
From 1984 to 1990, Mr Pellett conducted his own planning consultant practice, including
work for individuals making applications to the Provincial Agricultural Land Commission.
From 1990 to the present (and into the future), has been a regional planner for the
Provincial Agricultural Land Commission. My principal responsibility is for the Lower Mainland
of British Columbia, where he deals with local and regional governments and with the impact
on agriculture of major projects such as port expansion and major highway construction.
Pilar Riaño-Alcalá
Dr. Pilar Riaño-Alcalá’s research, teaching, community/pedagogical work and writing cross
Latin and North America. Previous to coming to UBC, she was a postdoctoral fellow with the
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CERLAC) and the Center for Refugee
Studies (CRS) at York University in Toronto as well as a research associate with the
Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History (ICANH). Dr. Riaño-Alcalá's research
focuses on the cultural dimensions of violence and the politics of memory, witnessing and
reconciliation in “unstable” societies. Her methodologies, grounded in feminist practice and
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critical ethnographic inquiry, emphasize social praxis and the use of interactive methods as
means to recognize the research participants as research interlocutors.
Anne Roberts
A City of Vancouver councillor from 2002 to 2005, Anne Roberts chaired the city's Planning
and Environment Committee and served as one of the city's representatives on the board of
the Greater Vancouver Regional District. Anne also served as an elected Vancouver School
Board trustee in the 1990s. A long-time community activist, she chaired Kensington-Cedar
Cottage (KCC) CityPlan committee that oversaw the development and implemention of a
local plan to create viable shopping areas, resolve traffic and safety issues, and improve
livability of the area. Previously, she had chaired a neighbourhood group that re-designed
their local park and lobbied successfully for its transformation. A former journalist, Anne
now teaches journalism at Langara College.
Heather Schoemaker
Heather Schoemaker is Manager of Corporate Relations for Metro Vancouver. She leads a
staff group that plans, develops, executes and communicates strategies, programs and
initiatives to support Metro Vancouver services and priorities. Her team is responsible for
continuing to promote regional sustainability broadly through the Metro Vancouver’s
Sustainable Region Initiative. Other responsibilities include corporate communications,
media relations, web programs, and three major corporate initiatives: co-ordinating the
Metro Vancouver role in the World Urban Forum in 2006, co-ordinating the Metro Vancouver
role in dealing with West Nile Virus and co-ordinating Metro Vancouver actions on Aboriginal
Affairs/First Nation issues. Prior to joining Metro Vancouver, she was director of the
Sustainable Cities initiative for Industry Canada.
Jeannie Shoveller
Jeannie Shoveller is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Care & Epidemiology
(Faculty of Medicine) at the University of British Columbia. Her research addresses the
theme of reducing health and social inequalities, with an emphasis on investigating the
impacts of gender and place. She holds an Applied Public Health Research Chair from the
Canadian Institutes of Health Research and a Senior Scholar Award from the Michael Smith
Foundation for Health Research. Jeannie also is a member of the Institute Advisory Board for
the Institute of Population and Public Health at the Canadian Institute of Health Research,
which provides strategic direction and sets research agenda priorities for population and
public health sciences across Canada. As a Co-Investigator on the NPC project, Jeannie has
made substantive contributions pertaining to gender, decent work, and the role of
universities in collaborative action research. She also is leading an initiative to write a
manuscript describing the factors that affect the development and implementation of
consortia, drawing on key examples from experiences in the five regions, particularly those
in Belo Horizonte.
Deming Smith
Deming is a community activist with extensive involvement in social, environmental and
political issues. He has spent over 20 years as a transportation policy analyst and program
coordinator, working for local government agencies, including TransLink, the Greater
Vancouver Regional District and BC Transit, as well as for several non-profit community
groups. Most recently, he was employed as the policy and communications manager of a
Vancouver-based non-profit sustainable transportation advocacy group. In a voluntary role
he has served as a board director for one of Vancouver’s most well known non-profit
environmental organizations, and in a similar capacity for one of the city’s municipal political
parties. He holds a bachelors degree in political science.
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John Wojciechowski
John is Field Coordinator for the NPC project. He graduated from the University of Waterloo
in Canada with a Masters in Economic Development (2002) and Bachelor in Urban and
Regional Planning (2000). Since 2003, John has worked as Canadian consultant in three
CIDA funded projects including:
 Community Based Watershed Management (CBWM) Project with the Municipality of
Santo Andre, Sao Paulo, SP
 Brazil Inland Fisheries - Sustainable Livelihoods and Conservation Project, Tres Marias,
MG
 New Public Consortia for Metropolitan Governance in Brazil, Five Metropolitan Regions
Previous to working in Brazil, John was consultant and researcher for other CIDA and AUCC
funded projects in the Kaliningrad (Russia) and Novgorod (Ukraine) regions on issues such
as Business Incubator Development, SME Investment Strategies and Free Economic Zones
(FEZ). He has published articles and academic papers together for the Russian Center for
Economies in Transition (Moscow, Russia).
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