23-26 March 2009 Scoping Meeting Invited Speaker

Gordon McBean

Dr. Gordon McBean is a Professor and Director of Policy Studies for The Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction at The University of Western Ontario. He is Chair of Board of the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences; Chair, International Science Committee for Integrated Research on Disaster Risk; Co-Chair of the Global Environmental Change START (regional networks and capacity building) Project; and member of: Board of the International Institute for Sustainable Development; Ontario Premier's Climate Change Advisory Panel; Ontario Ministry of Environment's Expert Panel on Climate Change Adaptation; Department of Fisheries and Oceans Scientific Advisory Committee; City of London's Mayor's Sustainable Energy Council; and other national and international committees. He was a lead author for the Health Canada's Human Health in a Changing Climate report and a contributor to the From Impacts to Adaptation: Canada in a Changing Climate 2007. He was previously Chair of the international Scientific Committee for the World Climate Research Program.

His academic training includes a MSc in Atmospheric Physics from McGill University and a PhD in Physics and Oceanography from The University of British Columbia.

He was an Environment Canada scientist, a Professor of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at UBC and then Assistant Deputy Minister in Environment Canada, responsible for weather, climate, ice and water science and services. He was a lead author and review editor for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report in 2007. He is: a Member of the Order of Canada; a Fellow of the: Royal Society of Canada; Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society; and American Meteorological Society; and received the Patterson Medal for distinguish contributions to meteorology by a Canadian.