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GIN Conference Abstracts Due February 28th 2007

  • 1.  GIN Conference Abstracts Due February 28th 2007

    Posted 01-31-2007 08:53

    Colleagues

    Reminder: Abstracts are due February 28 for the GIN2007 Conference - June 15-17, 2007 - "Sustainable Social and Ecosystem Stewardship"

    Send your presentation proposals in by February 28.  See http://www.wlu.ca/ginconference for guidelines and all details of conference organization - themes, how to get there (most air travellers will fly into Toronto), where to stay. 

    We have an excellent roster of speakers and panelists already confirmed, including,

    • Dr. Randy Gossen, Vice-President (Sustainable Development), Nexen Resources
    • Dr. Stuart Hart, The SC Johnson Chair in Global Sustainable Enterprise, Cornell University
    • Avrim Lazar, President& CEO, Forest Products Association of Canada
    • Dr. B.W. Lee, President, LG Environmental Strategies Institute, South Korea 
    • Steve McCauley, Director- Environment Canada, Transportation Division
    • Sandra Odendahl, Vice-President (Environmental Risk Management), CIBC-Canadian Imperial bank of Commerce
    • Dr. Nina Poussenkova, Russian Academy of Sciences
    • Dr. Jerry Rogers, Technical Fellow, General Motors R&D
    • Hank Schilling, Managing Director, GE Energy Financial Services
    • Dianne Zimmerman, Sr. Manager (Stakeholder Relations) Suncor

    The City of Waterloo is the heart of Canada's Technology Triangle, with globally known technology companies such as Research in Motion (Blackberry) and Open Text headquartered here.  An hour west of Toronto, Waterloo is a modern, vigorous community with a lively and entrepreneurial business sector.  Waterloo is the home of the international think tanks: The Centre for International Governance Innovation and the Perimeter Institute of Theoretical Physics.

     

    Sanjay Sharma, Ph.D.
    Canada Research Chair in Organizational Sustainability
    Director, CMA Centre for Responsible Organizations
    Professor- Policy
    School of Business & Economics
    Wilfrid Laurier University
    Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5
    Phone: 519-884-0710 (2089)
    Fax: 519-884-0201