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Program Executive Committee
Prof. David Brown
Co-Chair, Professor, McGill University School of Urban Planning
Dr. Louis Drouin
Co-Chair, Head, Urban Environment and Health, Direction de santé publique, Agence de la santé et des services sociaux de Montréal
Janice Astbury
Head of the Youth Engagement in Arts, Culture and the Environment sub-committee, University of Manchester
Anik Bastien
Head of the Ecocity Project…On the Ground sub-committee, LEED Project Coordinator, Provencher Roy + Associés architectes, secrétaire à la section du Québec du Conseil du bâtiment durable du Canada
Prof. Laurence Bherer
Head of the Governance and Democracy in the Ecocity sub-committee, Department of Political Science, Université de Montréal
Jayne Engle-Warnick
Head of the Ecomobility, Urban Planning, Public Space sub-committee, McGill University; Urban planner and Vice-President, Montréal Urban Ecology Centre, and Ecocity 2011 Co-Convenor
Geoffrey Garver
Head of the Economics of the Ecocity sub-committee, McGill University
Prof. Lise Gauvin
Head of the Health and the Built Environment sub-committee, Department of Social and Preventive Medecine, Université de Montréal, CRCHUM (Centre de recherche du Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal)
Mélissa Giguère
Head of the Climate Change and the Ecocity sub-committee, Institut national de santé publique du Québec
Raquel Peñalosa
Head of the Biodiversity and Urban Agriculture sub-committee, Landscape architect, Vice-President, Québec Association of Landscape Architects, and Co-Organizer of AAPQ - Mission Design 2017
Luc Rabouin
Executive Director, Montréal Urban Ecology Centre, and Ecocity 2011 Co-Convenor
Elisabeth Arnold
Program Committee Coordinator
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Thematic sub-commitees
ECOMOBILITY, URBAN PLANNING AND PUBLIC SPACE
Jayne Engle-Warnick*
Head of the Ecomobility, Urban Planning, Public Space sub-committee, McGill University; Vice-President, Montréal Urban Ecology Centre and Ecocity 2011 Co-Convenor
Sylvie Tremblay
Direction des transports, Ville de Montréal
Prof. Paul Lewis
Institut d’urbanisme, Université de Montréal
Prof. Nik Luka
McGill University Schools of Architecture and Urban Planning
Jean-Francois Pronovost
Vélo Québec
Josée Dion
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
Benjamin Laplatte
Réseau des ingénieurs du Québec
Kirstin Miller
Ecocity Builders
Prof. Timothy Beatley
School of Architecture, University of Virginia
Mustapha Francisque
Groupe d’Appui aux Projets de Développement, Haïti
Louise Kielgast
Gehl Architects, Copenhagen
Prof. Jeff Kenworthy
Curtin University Sustainability Policy Institute, Australia; Goethe University Institute for Human Geography, Germany
Daniel Bouchard
Conseil régional de l’environnement de Montréal
Michel Bourbonnière
Gestionnaire corporatif — Développement durable de la Société de Transport de Montréal
HEALTH AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT
Prof. Lise Gauvin*
Head of the Health and the Built Environment sub-committee, Department of Social and Preventive Medecine, Université de Montréal, CRCHUM (Centre de recherche du Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal)
Sophie Paquin, PhD
Urban Environment and Health, Direction de santé publique, Agence de la santé et des services sociaux de Montréal
Audrey Smargiassi
Titulaire, Chaire sur la pollution de l'air, les changements climatiques et la santé, Université de Montréal
Norman King
Urban Environment and Health, Direction de santé publique, Agence de la santé et des services sociaux de Montréal
Prof. Kate Frohlich
Department of Social and Preventive Medecine, Université de Montréal, IRSPUM, Institut de recherche en santé publique de l’Université de Montréal
Daniel Fuller
Department of Social and Preventive Medecine, Université de Montréal, CRCHUM (Centre de recherche du Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal)
CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE ECOCITY
Mélissa Giguère*
Head of the Climate Change and the Ecocity sub-committee; Institut national de santé publique du Québec
Prof. Laurent Lepage
Sociologist and professor, Chaire d’étude sur les écosystèmes urbains, Université du Québec à Montréal
Devin Causley
Federation of Canadian Municipalities
Holly Dressel
School of Environment, McGill University
Isabelle Thomas-Maret
Faculté d’aménagement, Université de Montréal
Benjamin Laplatte
Réseau des ingénieurs du Québec
Caroline Larrivée
Consortium Ouranos
Ray Tomalty, PhD
McGill University School of Urban Planning
Nathalie Blanc
CNRS, Paris VI
Christian Savard
Vivre en ville
François Miller
Ville de Montréal
GOVERNANCE AND DEMOCRACY IN THE ECOCITY
Prof. Laurence Bherer*
Head of the Governance and Democracy in the Ecocity sub-committee, Department of Political Science, Université de Montréal
Claude Beaulac
Ordre des urbanistes du Québec
Prof. Caroline Andrew
Department of Political Science, University of Ottawa
Prof. Gregory Mikkelson
Department of Philosophy, McGill University
Michel Venne
Institut du Nouveau Monde
Jules Patenaude
Ville de Montréal
Dimitri Roussopoulos
Institut de politiques alternatives de Montréal (IPAM)
Luc Rabouin
Executive Director, Montréal Urban Ecology Centre, and Ecocity 2011 Co-Convenor
THE ECONOMICS OF THE ECOCITY
Geoffrey Garver*
Head of the Economics of the Ecocity sub-committee, McGill University
Chantal Line Carpentier, PhD
United Nations
Claude Bourbeau
PRAA
Hugo Séguin
Équiterre
Corinne Gendron
Université du Québec à Montréal
Richard Register
Ecocity Builders
Ray Tomalty, PhD
McGill University School of Urban Planning
Christian Savard
Vivre en Ville
Prof. Paul Thomassin
Agricultural Economics, McGill University
Andrew Cowan
Federation of Canadian municipalities
BIODIVERSITY AND URBAN AGRICULTURE
Raquel Peñalosa*
Head of the Biodiversity and Urban Agriculture sub-committee, Landscape architect, Vice-President, Québec Association of Landscape Architects, and Co-Organizer of AAPQ - Mission Design 2017
Ewa Ciuk-Jackson
ICLEI - Canada
Sabine Courcier, PhD
Ville de Montréal; PhD en aménagement de l’Université de Montréal
Marie-Ève Chaume
Conseil régional de l’environnement de Montréal
Josée Belleau
Conférence régionale des élus de Montréal/Nourrir Montréal
Prof. Éric Duchemin
Institut des sciences de l’environnement, Université du Québec à Montréal
Ismaël Hautecoeur
Landscape architect
Pierre Bélec
Société de verdissement du Montréal-métropolitain
Prof. Stéphanie Pellerin
Department of Biology, Jardin botanique de Montréal
Annick Girard
Project Manager, Équiterre
André Mader
ICLEI Africa, Senior Professional Officer with Local Action for Biodiversity
YOUTH ENGAGEMENT in arts, culture and the environment
Janice Astbury*
Head of the Youth Engagement in Arts, Culture and the Environment sub-committee, University of Manchester
Michel Séguin
Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Family Foundation
Gisèle Rucker
Segal Centre
Carina Rose
Carina Rose Design
Sylvie Trudel
Union St-Laurent Grands Lacs/Great Lakes United
Monique Trudel
EDUCOM environnement
AN ECOCITY PROJECT...ON THE GROUND
Anik Bastien*
Head of the Ecocity Project … On the Ground sub-committee, LEED Project Coordinator, Provencher Roy + Associés architectes, secrétaire à la section du Québec du Conseil du bâtiment durable du Canada
Layla MacLeod
Architect, Provencher Roy + Associés architectes
Audrey Girard
Urban planner, Cardinal Hardy
Isabelle Curau
Optim Ressources, Conseil en développement durable
Hugo Lafrance
Consultant, Écotactiques
Félix Paré
Écoconstructeur
Carina Rose
Carina Rose Design
Raquel Peñalosa*
Head of the Biodiversity and Urban
Agriculture sub-committee, Landscape
architect, Vice-President, Québec
Association of Landscape Architects,
and Co-Organizer of AAPQ - Mission
Design 2017
Céline-Coralie Mertenat
Provencher Roy + Associés architectes
Marie-Josée Dupuis
Student, Master Degree in Urban Planning, Université de Montréal
* Member of the Program Executive Committee































