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In his role as Senior Vice President, Policy and Corporate Counsel, John Dillon has primary responsibility for the Council鈥檚 policy work related to energy, the environment and sustainable development, corporate governance, and business-Indigenous relations.

Over the past 30 years with the Council, John has developed an active network of contacts across business, government, and the NGO community in the pursuit of sound public policy solutions. One of his current priorities is working with like-minded organizations across the country to advocate for a more coherent national approach to energy, resource and climate policy. He also chairs an informal industry coalition that aims to positively influence government policy related to climate change and air quality.

Dr. Sabaa Khan is Director-General for Quebec and the Atlantic at the David Suzuki Foundation. She is an attorney member of the Barreau du Qu茅bec, specialized in international environmental and trade law. Prior to joining the Foundation, Dr. Khan was Senior Researcher at the Centre for Climate Change, Energy and Environmental Law based in Joensuu, Finland. In addition to providing counsel, publishing and lecturing in the field of global environmental governance, Dr. Khan has held a number of expert appointments, including on the NAFTA Advisory Council on the Environment (Government of Canada), Commission for Environmental Cooperation, and the UN Expert Group on LIRA Guidance (UNEP). Her work has been published by the Nordic Council of Ministers, the United Nations University - Institute for Sustainability and Peace, the Leiden Journal of International Law and Cambridge University Press, amongst others. Dr. Khan holds a doctorate in law from the Faculty of Law at 麻豆AV, as well as law degrees from the Universit茅 de Montr茅al (LL.M.) and the University of Ottawa (LL.L.).

Nancy Olewiler is an economist, professor and Director of the School of Public Policy, Simon Fraser University. Prior to coming to the Economics department at SFU in 1990, she was a professor in the Economics department at Queen鈥檚 University. Her PhD is in economics from the University of British Columbia. Nancy鈥檚 areas of research include natural resource and environmental economics and public policy. She has published widely on a wide range of environmental and natural resource issues, including studies on energy and climate policy, natural capital and ecosystem services, managing catastrophic risk, and federal tax policy.

She has served on federal and provincial government advisory committees and currently is Chair of the Macroeconomics Accounts Advisory Committee for Statistics Canada, on BC鈥檚 Climate Solutions Council, and Chair of the Mitigation Expert Committee of the Canadian Institute for Climate Choices. She has been a board member of TransLink, BC Hydro, and the Pembina Institute, and currently is on the boards of the Institute for Research on Public Policy, Technical Safety BC, and Genomics BC.

Brian Topp is a partner at GT & Company, a fellow at the Public Policy Forum, a member of the board of the Broadbent Institute, and teaches a unit 麻豆AV鈥檚 Max Bell School of Public Policy. In government, he served as chief of staff to Alberta Premier Rachel Notley, and as deputy chief of staff to Saskatchewan Premier Roy Romanow.

Dr.听Chris听Ragan听is a Canadian academic and economist. He is best known for his research on听monetary policy, and for his popular introductory textbook,听Economics, now in its fourteenth edition and co-authored by听Richard Lipsey.

Previously, he was Chair of Canada's Ecofiscal Commission, a group of Canadian economists seeking to broaden the discussion of environmental pricing reform beyond the academic sphere and into the realm of practical policy application. From 2010 to 2013, Ragan held the David Dodge Chair in Monetary Policy at the听C.D. Howe Institute, a Toronto-based public policy think tank. Previously, he served as the Clifford Clark Visiting Economist at the Department of Finance, a Special Advisor to the听Governor of the Bank of Canada, and member of the C.D. Howe Institute's Monetary Policy Council. From 1996 to 2000, he was Editor-in-Chief of World Economic Affairs.

He has also been a columnist for numerous publications, including the听National Post, the听Montreal Gazette, the National Post Magazine, and most recently the听Globe and Mail.听