Award-winning writer Rick Boychuk was named editor of Canadian Geographic, Canada’s leading environmental, natural-history and earth-sciences publication, in 1995. Since then, Canadian Geographic has been nominated for more than 50 National Magazine Awards and voted Best Magazine of the Year three times by the Canadian Society of Magazine Editors.

Francine Dorion started at Abitibi-Consolidated in 1981 and was its vice-president of environment and technology from 2003 until 2007. Currently the chair of the Canadian National Council for Air and Stream Improvement, Dorion, a forest engineer, has also served on the Canadian Task Force on Boreal Forest Management, the Quebec Parks and Wildlife Society and the Canadian Sustainable Forest Management Network.

President of the International Institute for Sustainable Development, David Runnalls has spent his career promoting the principles of sustainable development. He is the co-founder of the International Institute for Environment and Development and has served as an adviser to government, NGOs, business and the United Nations. He has also worked as an environment columnist for both television and radio.

For more than a decade, Miville Tremblay reported on economic policies and financial markets at La Presse. Since 2002, he has been director of the Montréal regional office of the Bank of Canada. Tremblay has been awarded the Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy and is active in the Parc-Extension Scholarship project, which assists low-income new Canadians attending university.

A policy analyst and senior assistant to the executive director of The Pembina Institute since 2006, Jaisel Vadgama has also worked on sustainable-development policy for Natural Resources Canada, on urban water and sanitation issues for an NGO in Senegal and as a project evaluator in southern Madagascar. He has an educational background in chemical engineering, urban studies and planning and anthropology.