Working in Harmony? Coordinating Climate Policies
Roundtable Luncheon with Mark Cameron, Stewart Elgie, and Richard Morgenstern
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Registration for this event is complimentary for C.D. Howe Institute members. To register, please contact Polina Moskvina, Event Planner, at polina@cdhowe.org.
Mark Cameron, Executive Director, Canadians for Clean Prosperity
Originally from British Columbia, Mark lives in Ottawa, Canada and has worked in public policy roles in government, business and consulting for over 20 years.
He has worked in several MPs and Ministers offices, including working in the Office of the Prime Minister as Director of Policy and Research and Senior Policy Advisor from 2006 to 2009. He has also worked for Ontario Power Generation, BlackBerry, and as a consultant on energy and environmental issues.
Stewart Elgie, Professor, Law & Economics, University of Ottawa, Chair, Smart Prosperity Institute
Stewart Elgie is a professor of law and economics at the University of Ottawa. He is also the founder and chair of the Smart Prosperity Institute, Canada’s major environment-economy think tank and research network.
Elgie started his career as a Bay Street lawyer. He left to do a Masters at Harvard, and then took a job in Alaska with a public interest environmental law firm, including litigating over the Valdez oil spill. He returned to Canada and founded Ecojustice, now Canada’s largest non-profit environmental law organization, where he was counsel on many precedent setting cases during the 1990s, including four wins in Supreme Court of Canada on constitution-environment issues.
In 2003, he left a successful legal career to go back to school at Yale for a doctorate in law and economics. Since then, he has focused his research on how to how to harness economic forces to solve environmental problems.
Elgie has led or served on many government advisory bodies in the environment and sustainability area. In 2001, he was awarded the Law Society of Upper Canada medal for exceptional lifetime contributions to law – the youngest man to receive the profession’s highest honour. In 2015, he received Canada’s Clean 50 Award, for Thought Leadership. Since the birth of twin boys in 2012, he no longer has any hobbies.
Richard Morgenstern, Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future
Richard Morgenstern is a Senior Fellow at Resources for the Future and a former Senior Executive at the U.S. EPA, where he directed the Agency' Policy Office for more than a decade, and acted in various presidential appointee positions, including as the Deputy Administrator. For the year 2016-2017 he is a Fulbright scholar at the University of Ottawa. Previously he also served in both the Department of State and the Congressional Budget Office. At the EPA he lead the pathbreaking analysis of Agency priorities, Unfinished Business. Early in his career he was a tenured economics professor at the City University of New York, and subsequently taught at the Wharton School, Yeshiva University, and Oberlin College. His research focuses on the evaluation of the costs, benefits, and design of environmental policies in the U.S., China and other nations, especially economic incentive measures for addressing climate change. He has written widely and testified before Congress on various issues, including competitiveness in a cap and trade system. His current research looks back at the performance of federal regulations, and evaluates options for limiting emissions leakage in carbon pricing programs.
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