Presenters for Wings over the Rockies

Bob Jamieson

Bob Jamieson is a systems ecologist who has had a long and varied career as a consultant on environmental, conservation and other issues. He is presently playing a role as Executive Director of the Columbia Wetlands Stewardship Partners. The partnership is a group of some 35 interest groups, agencies and community representatives that are concerned with managing the mix of federal, provincial, municipal, First Nations and private lands in the wetlands. The wetlands are a 150 km long mix of wetlands, riparian areas, communities and farmland near the source of the Columbia River.

He is a Director on the board of the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute, an independent and non-partisan policy development group for the agric-food sector concerned with issues in rural Canada. In the past he was on the board of the BC Council on Sustainability and was a member of the BC Round Table on the Environment and Economy. Bob represented the tourism sector. He was Chair of the Sub-Committee concerned with Resource Accounting, Environmental Evaluation and Market-based Strategies for dealing with pollution and other environmental concerns. This group was responsible for bringing long term thinking around sustainability to all levels of government, and business in B.C. Bob has also worked as a Game Warden in Ghana, West Africa, where he helped create the national park system presently found there. He was “enskinned” as the M’Gulya Naa, or chief of friendship there in 2001.

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