Matias Margulis

Matias Margulis

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Matias Margulis

Associate Professor, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Contact Details

C.K. Choi Building 373

matias.margulis@ubc.ca

6048225783

Bio

Matias Margulis is appointed in SPPGA, not at IRES, and instead is a Faculty Associate of our unit. He may supervise students in our graduate program.

Matias Margulis is Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs and Faculty of Land and Food Systems at the University of British Columbia. His research and teaching interests are in global governance, development, human rights, international law and food policy. He has previously held academic positions at the University of Edinburgh, University of Stirling, University of Northern British Columbia and Max Plank Institute for the Study of Societies. In 2010-2011, he was the Cadieux-Léger Fellow at Global Affairs Canada.

In addition to his academic research, Matias has extensive professional experience in the field of international policymaking and is a former Canadian representative to the World Trade Organization (WTO), Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). He has also advised the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food and the Scottish Parliament and consulted for international NGOs and the Brookings Institution.

Allison Macfarlane

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Allison Macfarlane

Contact Details

Liu Institute for Global Issues

allison.macfarlane@ubc.ca

Research Interests

Faculty Associate, Profiles

Bio

Allison Macfarlane is not appointed at IRES and instead is a Faculty Associate of our unit. Please see appointments in left-hand column.

Allison Macfarlane is Professor and Director, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, Faculty of Arts, UBC. Allison has held both academic and government positions in the field of energy and environmental policy, especially nuclear policy. She was Chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission from 2012-2014. From 2010 to 2012 Allison served on the White House Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future, created by the Obama Administration to recommend a new national policy on high-level nuclear waste. Allison holds a PhD in earth science from MIT and a BSc from the University of Rochester.

Allison’s research interests are around nuclear energy and nuclear weapons materials. She is an acknowledged expert on nuclear waste disposal and repository siting and continues to work in this area. Though technically trained, she is interested insights that Science, Technology and Society can bring to understanding nuclear policy situated in a global context. She is currently engaged in projects that consider the promised new generation of reactors, SMRs.

Other links: https://sppga.ubc.ca/profile/allison-macfarlane/

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Dec 1, 3:30pm – 5:30pm | Force of Nature x UBC Climate Café

November 23, 2023: IRES Professional Development Seminar with Jackie Lerner

Environmental Consulting: An Insider’s View

Time: 12:30pm to 1:20pm

Location: Beaty Museum Allan Yap Theatre (Basement, 2212 Main Mall) Please check in at the Admissions Desk first before going to the Theatre.

No food or drinks allowed in the Theatre.

Click here to register for Zoom link. Zoom will be terminated if we encounter tech problems 5 to 10 mins into the seminar.

This seminar will not be recorded.

Talk summary:

This presentation will be a frank exploration of careers in environmental consulting, including a personal account of the speaker’s journey into the field, what a degree from IRES can add to your career development, what your typical work week might look like, what the trade-offs of pursuing this profession can be, and how you can improve your chances of both finding and enjoying work as an environmental consultant. 

Dr. Jackie Lerner, IRES Adjunct Professor

Bio:

IRES Alumna Dr. Jackie Lerner has been a consultant to industry and to municipal, Indigenous, provincial, territorial, and federal governments for over twenty-five years. Most of her work has related to the environmental assessment of large resource development projects in Canada: primarily mining and energy projects in British Columbia. Her dissertation (2018) proposed new methodologies for understanding probable future development patterns as part of cumulative effects assessment; she has more recently focused on practicable approaches for incorporating gender-based analysis into environmental assessment.

Dec 1, 6pm – 8pm | COP27 and the power of politics, people, and place

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Delegates return from COP 27 with lots of questions about where we are heading on climate