Patrick Moore
Dr. Patrick Moore has been a leader in the international environmental field for more than 30 years. He is a founding member of Greenpeace and served for nine years as President of Greenpeace Canada and seven years as a Director of Greenpeace International. As the leader of many campaigns, Dr. Moore was a driving force shaping policy and direction while Greenpeace became the world's largest environmental activist organization.
Dr. Moore currently serves as Chair and Chief Scientist of Greenspirit Strategies Ltd., a consultancy focusing on environmental policy and communications in forestry, agriculture, fisheries and aquaculture, mining, biodiversity, chemicals, energy and climate change.
His latest book, Confessions of a Greenpeace Dropout: The Making of a Sensible Environmentalist, which details Dr. Moores vision for a more sustainable world, was published in 2011.
In recent years, Dr. Moore was a member of British Columbia government-appointed Round Table on the Environment and Economy from 1990 to 1994. In 1990, he founded and chaired the BC Carbon Project, a group that worked to develop a common understanding of climate change. Dr. Moore also served for four years as Vice President, Environment for Waterfurnace International, the largest manufacturer of geothermal heat pumps for residential heating and cooling with renewable earth energy. As Chair of the Sustainable Forestry Committee of the Forest Alliance of BC from 1991 to 2002, he led the process of developing the Principles of Sustainable Forestry which have been adopted by a majority of the industry.
He was the recipient of the U.S. National Award for Nuclear Science in 2009 and received a Ph.D. in Ecology from the University of British Columbia in 1974.