Bio
Amelia Clarke has been working on environment and sustainability issues since 1989, and was recognized as one of 50 Canadian environmental leaders in the spring 2008 issue of Green Living magazine. She is an assistant professor in the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development at the University of Waterloo and director of the Master of Environment and Business program. She holds a Ph.D. in management from McGill University.
Amelia was also president of Sierra Club Canada from 2003 to 2006. She has served on numerous advisory committees, including the Atlantic Canada Sustainability Initiative (2007–2010); the program committee for the International Forum on Applied Sustainable Development (2007); the Canadian advisory committee for the World Peace Forum (2006); the federal government’s national advisory committee of the UN Habitat’s World Urban Forum III (2006); and the Canadian delegation during the UN World Summit on Sustainable Development (Johannesburg) negotiations (2002). In 1996, she founded the Sierra Youth Coalition, and is proud to have launched its sustainable campus program, which is now active on more than 80 university campuses.