Professional Resume (click here)


CREDENTIALS:
Professional Agrologist
Resource Economist
Farm Columnist, Journalist. Writer
  6 years as an Economist with Federal Government, Ottawa (1974-79)
  11 years of International  Project Management
35 years experience in Canadian Agriculture


EXPERTISE:
Agriculture
Board Governance
Competition policy/Competitiveness
Economics
Gender and Social Analysis
Industrial Organization
International Cooperation
International Trade
Regulation 
Water Resources


SKILLS:
Analysis (economic, competition, market, strategic, trade)
Communications
Facilitation/Consensus building
Project Management
Policy Analysis
Public Speaking
Strategic Thinking and Planning


AWARDS:
Bronze Award: Press Editorial (The O.R. Evans Award)
for Canadian cheese should be made with Canadian Milk
               2009 Writers and Broadcasters Awards, Canadian Farm Writers Federation

2009 Rosemary Davis Award (BC and Alberta),
Farm Credit Canada
for passion and committment to agriculture

Gold Award, Press Editorial (The O.R. Evans Award),
2008 Writers and Broadcasters Awards, Canadian Farm Writers' Federation
for Beware a Conservative Majority
Western Dairy Farmer, Sept/Oct 2007

Distinguished Alumni Award
Celebrating 9 Decades of Distinguished Alumni
Faculty of Land and Food Systems, University of British Columbia. May 23, 2008

Bronze Award, Press Column (The Frank Jacobs Award)
2006 Writers and Broadcasters Awards, Canadian Farm Writers' Federation
for Dual desk code for disaster
Opinion, Western Producer, February 9, 2006

Silver Award, Press Editorial (The O.R. Evans Award),
2004 Writers and Broadcasters Awards, Canadian Farm Writers' Federation
for NAFTA should be invoked to open border. 
Farmers' Independent Weekly, Sept 11, 2003

Gold Award, Press Column (The Frank Jacobs Award)
2003 Writers and Broadcasters Awards, Canadian Farm Writers' Federation
for Losing Ground 
Country Life in BC May 2003 

Bronze Award, Press Editorial (The O.R. Evans Award),
2003 Writers and Broadcasters Awards, Canadian Farm Writers' Federation
for Supply Management Under Fire,
Farmers' Independent Weekly, October 31, 2003
 

Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal, 2002
 

B.C. Agrologist of the Year 2000
 

Queen's Commemorative Meda 1992
125th Anniversary of Canadian Confederation


CODE OF ETHICS:
The profession of Agrology demands integrity, competence and objectivity
in the conduct of its Members while fulfilling their professional responsibilities
to the Public. the Employer or Client, the Profession and other Agrologists.

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