Executive Director - Andrew Bevan

Andrew brings to the position of Executive Director more than a decade of experience at the centre of national politics in both Ottawa and Toronto. Prior to joining Sustainable Prosperity, he served as Principal Secretary to the Leader of the Official Opposition.  His experience in working with senior levels of the public service, the private sector, the national media, and among MPs and cabinet ministers has been honed in a variety of senior staff positions, including Chief of Staff to the Minister of State for Infrastructure and Communities, where he played an integral role in the development and implementation of one of the government’s priorities, the New Deal for Cities and Communities. Andrew has managed election campaigns at every level of government. He is a graduate of the University of Toronto.

Senior Director, Policy and Markets - Alexander Wood

Alex brings extensive experience in the integration of economic and environmental issues in both the U.S. and Canada and joined Sustainable Prosperity from TD Bank Financial Group where he served as Special Advisor, Corporate Environmental Affairs. Before helping to position TD as a leader among North American financial institutions on the issue of climate change, Alex served as Acting Chief Executive Officer and President of the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy (NRTEE).  In his tenure at NRTEE he also developed a national program examining the role of fiscal policy in promoting the long-term reduction of carbon dioxide emissions. Alex started his career with the World Wildlife Fund in Washington, D.C., where he worked on issues related to international financial institutions. 

Senior Director, Research - Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger

Marie-Claire has two decades of experience directing sustainable development research and policy networks, experts commissions, institutions and initiatives. She joins SP on interchange from Natural Resources Canada, where she led the International Affairs Division, spearheading files on stewardship of natural resources, science and technology, corporate social responsibility, sustainable trade and investment, and the green economy. Marie-Claire is also an international legal scholar, having authored/edited 14 books and over 70 publications on sustainability law and policy in three languages. She holds a fellowship at the LCIL of Cambridge University, co-edits the new series on Implementing Treaties on Sustainable Development with Cambridge University Press, and serves as Director of the CISDL, based at McGill University, where she has trained high court judges, academics and government officials, and advised over 60 countries through the UN on the practical implementation of sustainable development treaties. Her DPhil studies at Oxford focused on international law, and she holds a masters from Yale, two law degrees from McGill, and a BA Hons in interdisciplinary studies. 

Director of Carbon Pricing Project - Stephanie Cairns

Stephanie was the sustainable policy analyst for the Official Opposition from 1991 to 1993, and returned to Parliament Hill in 1997 to be a strategic policy advisor in the Prime Minister’s Office. She founded the Pembina Institute’s Ecological Fiscal Reform program in 1994, and took a lead role in early policy debates on ecological fiscal reform, climate change and energy policy. From 1999 to 2008 she worked as a consultant in the field of sustainable development, providing policy analysis and strategy to think tanks, federal government departments, leadership corporations and non-government organizations, making a major contribution to the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy’s programs on Ecological Fiscal Reform and Long Term Energy and Climate Change Strategies. Stephanie serves on the Boards of the International Institute for Sustainable Development and of Training Resources for the Environmental Community; is a Trustee Emeritus and Past President of the Board of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society; and was a member of the President's Advisory Council of the Royal Society of Canada. She is a graduate of the University of Toronto and of the industrial environmental economics program at Lund University, Sweden.

Director of Sustainable Communities - David Thompson

David Thompson is Director of Sustainable Communities for Sustainable Prosperity, and Principal of PolicyLink Research and Consulting – an Edmonton-based public policy consultancy.  He co-authored Sustainable Prosperity’s “Smart Budget: A Background Paper on Environmental Pricing Reform for Local Governments,” and was the principal researcher for “The Smart Budget Toolkit”. He has also prepared briefing documents on EPR for the City of Edmonton and the Toronto City Summit Alliance. He has worked as a lawyer in government and in the civil society sector, in management, as a small business owner, and as a researcher and organizational development consultant. He has postgraduate degrees in law and environmental economics.

Network Coordinator – Jenna Dunsby

As a graduate of Environmental Studies and dedicated sustainability activist, Jenna is committed to the belief that a different world is possible – and seeks to better understand ways to make change happen. She has organized with various national and local environmental groups, including the Sierra Youth Coalition, The Otesha Project and the University of Ottawa's Sustainable Development Office. She coordinates research projects and activities for Sustainable Prosperity, while helping further build and strengthen its network.

Executive Assistant – Sarah Van Stiphout

Having grown up exploring the backwoods of northern Ontario, Sarah developed an interest early on for working on the protection, preservation and sustainability of our natural resources. She has an extensive background in law, including past work with Ecojustice (formerly Sierra Legal Defence). This experience, as well as her involvement with environmental and social justice issues, has shaped her current interest in Sustainable Prosperity’s goal of working towards a greener economy. Sarah is eager to have a hand in the development of this new organization, and is excited to collaborate with staff and network members to ensure its success.