Alumni

Alumni of the RES program have embarked on impactful careers that extend well beyond academia. Many of our distinguished alumni are actively engage in high-level policymaking, influencing critical decisions to improve the sustainability of our planet.

Please request to join our LinkedIn Group Page to see examples of where our alumni have gone after finishing the RES program. Are you an IRES alum? Would you like your contact details to be added here? Please email info@ires.ubc.ca with your contact details and we will add you.

Our Theses & Dissertations page contains a fairly comprehensive list of the doctoral work of the graduate students in our department.

Featured Alumni

Vanessa Timmer

PhD with Peter Nemetz, 1997; Executive Director, OneEarth; Senior Research Fellow, Utrecht University
Nathaniel K. Newlands

PhD with Tony Pitcher, 2002; Research Scientist, Government of Canada; Adjunct Professor, University of Victoria
Darlene Seto

MA with Kathryn Harrison, 2012; Lead: Policy and Partnerships, Foundry BC
Sonja Wilson

MSc with Hadi Dowlatabadi, 2012; Principal with Reshape Strategies
Paul Teehan

PhD with Milind Kandlikar & Hadi Dowlatabadi, 2013; Software Engineering Lead
Sarah C. Klain

PhD with Kai Chan & Terre Satterfield, 2016; Assistant Professor, Utah State University
Lisa Westerhoff

PhD w/ John Robinson, 2016; Principal of Policy and Planning, Integral Group
Sara Elder

PhD with Peter Dauvergne, 2016; Adjunct Professor, UBC IRES; Senior Policy Advisor, International Institute for Sustainable Development
Daniel Klein

MSc with Gunilla Öberg, 2017; Senior Utility Planning Engineer, City of Vancouver
Liz Williams

MSc w/ Kai Chan, 2017; Doctoral candidate in Psychology, University of Victoria
Tugce Conger

PhD with Stephanie Chang, 2018; Senior Planner, City of Vancouver
Arielle Louise Swett

MA with Hadi Dowlatabadi, 2018; Policy Analyst, Arcadia; 2022 Fellow, Clean Energy Leadership Institute
Carmen Wan

MSc with Kai Ostwald, 2023; Program Specialist, UBC Sustainability Hub
Claire Ewing

MSc with Amanda Giang and David Boyd, 2021; Senior Policy and Planning Analyst, Metro Vancouver
Helina Jolly

PhD with Terre Satterfield & Milind Kandlikar, 2022; Research Associate, Interdisciplinary Biodiversity Solutions
Jack Durant

MA with Daniel Steel & Gunilla Öberg, 2022
Sandeep Pai

PhD with Hisham Zerriffi, 2021; Senior Research Lead, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Anthony W. Persaud

PhD w/ Terre Satterfield, 2021; Director of the Indigenous Home-Lands Initiative, Ecotrust Canada
Giulia Belotti

MSc with Milind Kandlikar, 2024
Sameer Shah

PhD with Leila Harris, 2021; Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Pittsburgh
Myriam Khalfallah

PhD w/ Daniel Pauly, 2020; Postdoctoral Fellow, UBC IOF
Erika Luna Perez

MSc with Navin Ramankutty & Amanda Giang, 2022; Policy Analyst, International Institute for Sustainable Development
Lea M. Anderson

MA with Kai Chan, 2023; DPhil student of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford
Evan Bowness

PhD with Hannah Wittman, 2021; Assistant Professor of Community Food Systems at the Trent School of the Environment
Harold Eyster

PhD with Kai Chan, 2021; Gund Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Vermont
David Righter

MSc with Stephanie Chang, 2021; Climate Action Planner, Introba
Graham McDowell

PhD with Leila Harris and Michele Koppes, 2020; Banting Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Zurich; Project Leader, Canadian Mountain Assessment
Sophia Murphy

PhD with Hannah Wittman, 2021; Executive Director of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Brian Wang

MSc with Mark Johnson, 2024
Brittney Wong

MA with Stephanie Chang, 2023; Contract and Special Projects Coordinator, York Region (The Regional Municipality of York)
Grace Schaan

MA with Kathryn Harrison, 2023
Brynley Hanson-Wright

MSc with Jiaying Zhao, 2022
Julia Craig

MSc with Kai Chan, 2022
Taya Triffo

MA with Leila Harris, 2022
Emma Gillies

MSc with Amanda Giang, 2022; Biologist, Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Diana Bedolla López

MA with Gunilla Oberg, 2023
Atlanta-Marinna Grant

MA with Hannah Wittman & Maggie Low, 2023
Allison Cutting

MSc with Terre Satterfield & Rashid Sumaila, 2022; Research Analyst, UBC IOF
Carly McGregor

MSc with Claire Kremen, 2022; Lab Manager, UBC Plant-Insect Ecology & Evolution Lab
Sarah-Louise Ruder

PhD with Terre Satterfield & Hannah Wittman, 2024; SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Ottawa; Researcher, Food and Agricultural Institute, University of the Fraser Valley
Jumi Gogoi

PhD with Navin Ramankutty, 2024; Analyst, Financial Engineering and Modelling team within Financial Advisory in Deloitte
Erika Gavenus

PhD with Terre Satterfield, 2024
Yeonuk Kim

PhD with Mark Johnson, 2023; IRES Postdoc
Stephen Chignell

PhD with Mark Johnson & Terre Satterfield, 2024
Madison Stevens

PhD with Dr. Terre Satterfield, 2023; Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Indigenous-Led Ecological Restoration, Boise State University
Rocío López de la Lama

PhD with Kai Chan, 2023; Postdoctoral Fellow, UBC SPPGA
Susanna Klassen

PhD with Navin Ramankutty & Hannah Wittman, 2022
Juan Diego Martinez

PhD with Navin Ramankutty, 2023 Applied Research Coordinator, Climate Action and Food Systems, UBC Campus and Community Planning
Dana James

PhD w/ Hannah Wittman, 2022; Postdoctoral Researcher, Faculty of Land and Food Systems, UBC
Selina Agbayani

MSc with Andrew Trites, 2022; Aquatic Biologist for Fisheries and Oceans Canada