Ann Dale is a Professor in the School of Environment and Sustainability at Royal Roads University. Professor Dale held her university’s first Canada Research Chair in sustainable community development (2004-2014), is a Trudeau Alumna, and a Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Sciences. She is a recipient of the CUFA Paz Buttedahl Distinguished Career Academic Award (2014); the Canada Council for the Arts, Molson Prize for the Social Sciences (2013) and the 2009 Bissett Award for Distinctive Contributions to the Public Sector. Her book, At the Edge: Sustainable Development in the 21st Century, received the 2001 Policy Research Initiative Award for Outstanding Research Contribution to Public Policy. Her research focuses on climate pollution, governance, research curation, sustainable community development, social capital and agency. She recently assumed directing her school as of September 2019. She brings considerable strategic policy expertise as a former executive with the Federal Government. Professor Dale holds degrees in psychology (1975) and public administration (1994) from Carleton University, and a doctorate in Natural Resources Sciences from McGill University (1999), Dean’s Honour List.

Leslie King is a Professor and Program Head in the School of Environment and Sustainability and director of the Canadian Centre for Environmental Education (CCEE) at Royal Roads University. She brings extensive interdisciplinary experience to the team. Her recent research projects include Conflicting Knowledge Systems in the Pacific Northwest, Meeting the Climate Change Challenge (MC3), Protected Areas and Poverty Reduction: A Canada Africa Research and Learning Alliance (PAPR), Arctic Climate Predictions: Pathways to Sustainable Resilient Societies (ARCPATH), and Northern Knowledge for Resilience, Sustainable Environments and Adaptation in Coastal Communities in the Circumpolar Arctic (NORSEACC). Dr. King has led synthesis processes for large complex inter-disciplinary, international research projects, including the 10-year IHDP project and Inst. Dimensions of Global Environmental Change (IDGEC).

Dr. Kenneth Christie is a Professor in the Human Security and Peacebuilding graduate programs at Royal Roads University. Dr. Christie is a political scientist, author, editor and international academic who has taught and conducted research at universities in the U.S., Singapore, South Africa, Norway and Dubai. Through his international work, Dr. Christie has developed a unique perspective on peace, development and human security, and governance systems. Dr. Christie's work has focused on issues of human rights, security and democratization. He is widely published as an author and editor with eight books to his credit. Currently, he is working on issues of religion, ethnic and state formation/failure in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia. Dr. Christie has also conducted evaluations of human rights NGOs for the Norwegian government in Southeast Asia.

Dr. Tamara Krawchenko is an Assistant Professor at the School of Public Administration and a member of the Institute for Integrated Energy Systems (IESVic) at the University of Victoria. Dr. Krawchenko studies public policy from an interdisciplinary and multi-level governance perspective at multiple scales—from international frameworks to local politics.  Her research interests include political economy and economic geography, comparative public policy, land use planning and strategic spatial planning, community and economic development, territorial policies (regional, rural, urban), and transportation and infrastructure policy. Dr. Krawchenko's multi-disciplinary research has covered topics ranging from rural development to the governance of land use, infrastructure policy, intergenerational equity and public finance. She has authored over 50 articles, books and reports.

Dr. Evert Lindquist is a Professor at the School of Public Administration at the University of Victoria. Since 2012, Dr. Lindquist has been an Editor of the Canadian Public Administration, a peer-reviewed journal of the Institute of Public Administration of Canada (IPAC). Dr. Lindquist is the former President of the Canadian Association of Programs in Public Administration and former Director of the School of Public Administration. His research interests include central decision-making, public sector reform and how governments address complex policy challenges.

Dr. Astrid Brousselle is a Professor and Director in the School of Public Administration at the University of Victoria. Dr. Brousselle's expertise is in evaluation theories and methods in healthcare and healthcare system analysis. In her career, she has published over 60 scientific articles and co-wrote and co-edited a book, L’Évaluation: Concepts et Méthodes, in 2009. Recently, Dr. Brousselle published two comments in The Lancet Planetary Health about the ecosocial transition. Before taking a leadership role at the University of Victoria, she held a Canada Research Chair in Evaluation and Health System Improvements at the Université de Sherbrooke. Alongside Tara Ney and Lisa Helps, Mayor of Victoria, she led the Vancouver Island Climate Action Leadership Plan research project. Dr. Brousselle's current research focuses on identifying approaches for accelerating the ecological transition.

Dr. Thomas Homer-Dixon is the Founder and Director of the Cascade Institute and an Adjunct Professor with the School of Environment and Sustainability at Royal Roads University. An internationally recognized scholar, his research focuses on threats to global security in the 21st century, including economic instability, climate change, and energy scarcity. He also studies how people, organizations, and societies can better resolve their conflicts and innovate in response to complex problems.

Dr. Tony Boydell is a Professor and Program Head in the School of Environment and Sustainability at Royal Roads University. During his time at Royal Roads, he has been the Dean of the former Science, Technology & Environment Division, and the Director of the School of Environment and Sustainability. In 2017, he spent 6 months as Advisor to the President on International Collaboration & Development. In 2014, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. Tony is a Canadian expert on Environmental Impact Assessment and has advised the British Columbia Government, the Federal Government, and the Government of the Northwest Territories on Sustainability and Environmental Impact Assessment.

Dr. Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly is a Professor at the School of Public Administration at the University of Victoria. Dr. Brunet-Jailly holds a Jean Monnet Chair in Innovative Governance (2017-2020), and previously held the Jean Monnet Chair in European Urban and Border Region Policy (2014-2016). He worked for the French public sector for ten years, including postings with the French Small Business Administration and the Nord Pas-de-Calais Regional Council. In both capacities, Dr. Brunet-Jailly worked with the European Commission and the European Union Directorate for Regional Policies in Brussels. At the University of Victoria, he is the Director of the Boarders in the Globalization research program (2013-2020) and European Union Jean Monnet Center and the Jean Monnet Network research programs (2013-2019).

Brent Herbert-Copley’s career focused on research, higher education and public policy, both in Canada and internationally. A former senior executive with the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), he acted as advisor on a variety of domestic and international initiatives, and served as Canadian co-chair of a bilateral committee on science and technology cooperation between Canada and Chile. Brent held a PhD in political science from Carleton University and published on issues of innovation, environmental regulation and research policy.

Dr. Tara Ney is an Associate Professor of Public Administration at the University of Victoria. Dr. Ney is an expert in designing inclusive and effective decision-making processes in organizations and communities. Before joining UVic, she worked in the government, non-profit, and private sectors as a clinical and forensic psychologist, with extensive experience in community development, locally in restorative justice programming and internationally in post-conflict zones. Since 2008, Dr. Ney has served as a municipal councillor in Oak Bay. She is involved with the Vancouver Island Climate Action Leadership Plan project and Co-constructing Justice: Citizen-centered design for public services complaint systems, funded by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).

Morris Rosenberg has a long and distinguished career in the federal public service. He worked in the Department of Justice from 1979 to 1989 and subsequently was appointed Assistant Deputy Minister in the Department of Consumer and Corporate Affairs. From 1993 to 1996, Rosenberg was Assistant Secretary to the Cabinet, Economic and Regional Development Policy, at the Privy Council Office. He was appointed Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet (Operations) in 1996. Two years later, Rosenberg was appointed Deputy Minister of Justice and Deputy Attorney General of Canada, a post he held for six years. He was appointed Deputy Minister of Health Canada from 2004 to 2010 when he became Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. Rosenberg served as President and CEO of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation.

Dr. Katya Rhodes is an Assistant Professor in the School of Public Administration and a member of the Institute for Integrated Energy Systems at the University of Victoria. She is also a President of the Canadian Society for Ecological Economics. Dr. Rhodes was a Senior Economic Advisor in the B.C. Climate Action Secretariat, leading economic analyses for the CleanBC plan and taught environmental economics at Royal Roads University. She conducted research on economic efficiency, environmental effectiveness, and political acceptance of B.C.’s climate policies. Her research skills include descriptive and inferential statistical analyses, energy-economy modelling, collection and parameterization of survey data and media and content analysis. She developed clean technology and green jobs databases at the Vancouver Economic Commission, analyzed provincial policy for the Ministry of Forests, Land and Natural Resource Operations' Cumulative Effects Framework, and investigated public and stakeholder views of B.C.’s carbon tax at the Pembina Institute.