Board of Directors (Canada)
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Dr Peter Foggin
Secretary
Professeur honoraire, Département de géographie, Univ de Montréal
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Dr Leonardo Cabrera's Bio
Dr Cabrera was trained as a biologist at the National University of Mexico (UNAM) with a Master degree from the same institution in Ecology and Environmental Sciences. For more than 20 years Leonardo has explored the causes of landscape conservation and degradation by using transdisciplinary approaches to integrate ecological and social dynamics of cultural landscapes of Mexico, Central America, Australia and Canada. In his PhD research (McGill University, Montreal, Canada), he worked with ancient pastoral communities of Central Mexico’s high mountains to understand local traditional grassland management practices, land ownership and defense, and power relationships shaping a vibrant cultural landscape of high conservation value. Since 2007, Leonardo has been with Parks Canada as Ecosystem Scientist to lead ecosystem monitoring and habitat restoration projects, conserve species at risk, coordinate scientific research, collaborate with partners, and present natural and cultural treasures to Canadians.
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Mr Barry Adams's Bio
Barry Adams recently retired to private practice after a 38 year career with Alberta Environment and Parks Rangelands. For 32 years Barry served as the Provincial Rangeland Specialist in Grasslands. A key focus of his work has been to assist ranchers to apply the principles and practices of range management to promote healthy range and a sustainable livestock operation. He has been active in developing new rangeland health tools including range plant community guides for the Grassland Natural Region, the Grassland Vegetation Inventory (GVI), restoration practices for prairie and parkland rangelands, and grazing management strategies for species at risk. For the past 6 years Barry served as the provincial program head of the Alberta Rangeland Resource Stewardship Section based in Edmonton. Barry Chairs the Advisory Council of the Rangeland Research Institute at the University of Alberta. Barry is active in the Society for Range Management and makes his home in southern Alberta with his wife Allison and two sons.
Dr Peter Foggin's Bio
Peter was formerly Professor and Chair of the Department of Geography at the (French language) University of Montreal (UdeM) and continues his relationship with UdeM as ‘professeur honoraire’. He is a medical geographer focused on the health status and risk factors of disadvantaged cultural groups (the Inuit and Cree of northern Québec, herders of Mongolia, the Miao peoples of southwest China, and a group of nomadic herders in southern Qinghai, China). The results have been mainly reported in the scientific journal Social Science and Medicine. A short list is available. Born in China, his greatest academic pleasure has always been the teaching of the human geography of China. He has travelled widely in that country for the last 30 years. He continues to travel extensively, in non-pandemic times accompanying his wife Beth as she gives lectures on cultural history for two cruise lines. However, his geographic focus continues to be on China as he devotes as much time as possible to both writing and photography.
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Dr Walter Willms's Bio
Dr Walter Willms is an Emeritus Scientist working on the ecology and management of natural grasslands (rangeland) with Agriculture and AgrFood Canada, Lethbridge. The general area of work has been to understand the prairie ecosystems in western Canada in order to encourage their retention and conservation. To do that, he conducted studies to understand the role of grazing disturbance in affecting ecological processes and outcomes of the grasslands as defined by their productivity, biodiversity and the genetic diversity of a key grass species. He has served as adjunct professor with the Universities of Alberta and Saskatchewan and continues to work with the Inner Mongolia Agricultural University. He has been blessed with the collaboration of many scientists and the support of his wife, Maureen, and children.
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Mr Wilbur A Kent's Bio
Wilbur Kent first trained in printing, publishing and management. Then, while resident for three decades in the Dominican Republic, he worked in a variety of development services in cooperation with national and international agencies. These services included child care and education, orientation and liaison support for developing community leaders, and as a resource person and interpreter for joint national and international projects in areas of literature, publishing, radio, television and medicine. He maintains ongoing contact with internet communication.
Dr J Marc Foggin's Bio
More than 20 years’ experience in biodiversity conservation and community development, with primary focus on community-based initiatives in the Tibetan Plateau region of China and in Central Asian mountain areas. From 2014 until 2018, served as Associate Director of Mountain Societies Research Institute (MSRI), University of Central Asia (UCA). Lengthy experience in both NGO project implementation and academic research in fields of grasslands and wildlife ecology; community conservation projects; development projects focused on enhancing pastoralists’ livelihoods and well-being, including education, community health and income generation; community co-management and protected area management; policy analysis; and capacity building at different administrative levels. Has led the work of the non-profit organization Plateau Perspectives since 1998, and also has served as consultant for World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Fauna and Flora International (FFI) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). In 2013 served as Chief Technical Advisor (CTA) for the UNDP/GEF Qinghai Biodiversity Conservation Project, which seeks to strengthen the management effectiveness of the protected area system in Qinghai province, China. Previously was Honorary Research Fellow at the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE), University of Kent. Since 2016 has been honorary Research Associate in the Institute of Asian Research in the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs (SPPGA) at University of British Columbia (UBC). Professional member of the international Society for Conservation Biology (SCB), IUCN’s World Commission on Protected Areas, and several other IUCN working groups.
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Dr Ken Marr's Bio
Ken Marr has been botany curator with the Royal BC Museum since 2001. His PhD is from the University of British Columbia, where he also did post-doctoral studies before heading to China for two and a half years to study ethnobotany, specifically crop domestication of several cucurbits, at the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (Chinese Academy of Sciences). He taught plant taxonomy courses at the University of Wyoming and the University of Montana for one year prior to beginning at the Royal BC Museum. Ken is interested especially in the classification, biogeography and conservation of terrestrial vascular plants, in particular the alpine flora of British Columbia, Canada. He did not ‘fall very far from the tree’, his father founded the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR). Ken is actively working to document the distribution of non-native plant species in British Columbia through plant identification workshops and encouraging the collection of voucher specimens.
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Judi Cameron's Bio
Judi Cameron has a degree in Kinesiology from Simon Fraser University and degree in Physiotherapy from the University of Manchester. For the past 11 years she has worked as a Physiotherapist at the Centre for Child Development in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada. Currently she works with kids with developmental disabilities, their families, school and medical teams to maintain the kids health, mobility and to promote inclusion in physical activity. Judi volunteers as an international classifier in para-taekwondo and is presently a member of the classification committee for World Taekwondo. She also serves as the president of the board of directors for Sportability, a local non-profit which facilitates participation in physical activity and sport by people who have a physical disability.
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Board of Trustees (Scotland)
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Dr Charles Warren
Chair
Department of Geography & Sustainable Development, University of St Andrews
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Prof Jeremy Begbie
Safeguarding
Thomas A Langford Research Professor, Duke University
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David Torrance's Bio
David Torrance is a Fast Stream civil servant with the Scottish Government and an ordained priest in the Church of England. His career spans government policy, academic theology, and cross-cultural ministry. He previously worked in the third sector in rural Tanzania, taught in church and theological settings, and served in parish ministry and university chaplaincy. David brings together experience in public service, leadership development, and practical theology, shaped by long-term engagement in international and community-based contexts.
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Dr M Torrance-Foggin's Bio
Marion Foggin is a community paediatrician. She earned her medical degrees at University of St Andrews and University of Manchester. Postgraduate qualifications include MRCP and MRCPCH and she gained a Masters in Community Child Heath at the Institute of Child Health, University of London. Following 10 years of medical experience in the UK including her final position as a Consultant Community Paediatrician in Northumberland as well as other development experience in inner city areas with high unemployment, she has since 1998 led the health and community development work of the international NGO Plateau Perspectives in Qinghai Province and Tibet Autonomous Region, China. While still contributing to the work of Plateau Perspectives in China, she has also contributed to projects in the Kyrgyz Republic related to the health and wellbeing of children with disabilities and is preparing to start further health development projects more widely in Central Asia. Her main focus remains on rural livelihoods and the wellbeing of pastoral communities in high mountain regions
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Dr Charles Warren's Bio
Charles Warren graduated from the University of Oxford in 1985 with a First Class Honours degree in Geography before gaining an M.Sc. and a Ph.D at the University of Edinburgh. He then moved to St Andrews in 1995. Having begun his career researching the climatic response of glaciers in Patagonia, Nepal and New Zealand, his interests now lie in the field of environmental management. He has written widely on Scottish land use issues, notably in his book Managing Scotland’s Environment (EUP, 2nd edition, 2009) and in the edited volume Lairds, Land and Sustainability: Scottish perspectives on upland management (EUP, 2013). He is married to Sarah, and they have two adult children. He is an active member of the local church, a keen hillwalker and loves spending time in wild mountain environments.
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Prof Jeremy Begbie's Bio
Professor Jeremy Begbie teaches systematic theology at the Duke Divinity School and specializes in the interface between theology and the arts. Previously associate principal of Ridley Hall, Cambridge, he has also been honorary professor at the University of St Andrews, where he directed the research project, Theology Through the Arts at the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts. He is a senior member of Wolfson College and an affiliated lecturer in the faculty of music at the University of Cambridge. A professionally trained musician, he has performed extensively as a pianist, oboist and conductor. He is an ordained minister of the Church of England, having served for a number of years as assistant pastor of a church in West London. He is author of a number of books including Resounding Truth: Christian Wisdom in the World of Music(Baker/SPCK), which won the Christianity Today 2008 Book Award in the Theology/Ethics Category.
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Mrs Margaret Torrance's Bio
