BIOGRAPHY

After 20 extraordinary years responsible for applied research and delivery of more than 300 seminars and conferences for the Canadian Urban Institute, I am transitioning to a part-time role as a Senior Associate. I will continue to be engaged in debates on aging, downtowns and regional competitiveness. My email at CUI remains the same although I will be out of the country until mid-March, 2016.In addition to providing planning advice to public and private sector organizations in my role as a director with the Canadian Urban Institute I was the founding editor of the Ontario Planning Journal, the professional practice magazine of the Ontario Professional Planners Institute. I concluded my tenure with issue 150 in 2011. In 2005 I was made a Fellow of the Canadian Institute of Planners. I have a strong personal interest in aging and mobility and am working on a book project on how Canadians need to address issues related to an aging population with Gordon Harris, President & CEO of Univercity in Burnaby, B.C. and Richard Littlemore, an author also based in B.C.At the CUI we involved in a number of inter-related research topics, ranging from regional competitiveness and population aging to a pan-Canadian project focused on "the value of investing in Canadian downtowns." This project recently won the prestigious Pinnacle Award from the International Downtown Association. Visit www.canurb.org for more information.

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