Alumni

Alumni of the RES program have gone on to successful careers working with government, non-governmental organizations, consulting organizations, Indigenous communities, academia and beyond.

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

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
Lisa Westerhoff

PhD w/ John Robinson, 2016; Principal of Policy and Planning, Integral Group
Liz Williams

MSc w/ Kai Chan, 2017; Doctoral candidate in Psychology, University of Victoria
Anthony W. Persaud

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

PhD w/ Peter Dauvergne, 2016; Adjunct Professor, UBC IRES; Senior Policy Advisor, International Institute for Sustainable Development
Sandeep Pai

PhD with Hisham Zerriffi, 2021; Senior Research Lead, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Arielle Louise Swett

MA w/ Hadi Dowlatabadi, 2018; Policy Analyst, Arcadia; 2022 Fellow, Clean Energy Leadership Institute
Darlene Seto

MA w/ Kathryn Harrison, 2012; Lead: Policy and Partnerships, Foundry BC
Vanessa Timmer

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

PhD w/ Tony Pitcher, 2002; Research Scientist, Government of Canada; Adjunct Professor, University of Victoria
Sameer Shah

PhD with Leila Harris, 2021; Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Pittsburgh
Tugce Conger

PhD with Stephanie Chang, 2018; Senior Planner, City of Vancouver
Daniel Klein

MSc with Gunilla Öberg, 2017; Senior Utility Planning Engineer, City of Vancouver
Sarah C. Klain

PhD with Kai Chan & Terre Satterfield, 2016; Assistant Professor, Utah State University
Lea M. Anderson

MA Student, Master’s Representative, 2022-2023; DPhil student of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford
Evan Bowness

PhD with Hannah Wittman, 2021; Postdoctoral Fellow, University of the Fraser Valley
Harold Eyster

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

MSc with Stephanie Chang, 2021; Environmental Planner, state of Massachusetts
Sonja Wilson

MSc with Hadi Dowlatabadi, 2012; Principal with Reshape Strategies
Graham McDowell

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

PhD with Terre Satterfield, 2021; Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Oxford
Paul Teehan

PhD with Milind Kandlikar & Hadi Dowlatabadi, 2013; Software Engineering Lead
Sophia Murphy

PhD with Hannah Wittman, 2021; Executive Director of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Brynley Hanson-Wright

MSc with Jiaying Zhao, 2022
Julia Craig

MSc with Kai Chan, 2022
Taya Triffo

MA with Leila Harris, 2022
Diana Bedolla López

MA with Gunilla Oberg, 2023
Emma Gillies

MSc with Amanda Giang, 2022; Environmental Analyst, Canada Energy Regulator
Atlanta-Marinna Grant

MA with Hannah Wittman & Maggie Low, 2023 Contact Details atlanta.grant@ubc.ca mobile: 9053926458 Research Interests Bio Kwe (hello!) Atlanta Grant is an Iroquois woman (she/her) with mixed Huron-Wendat and German ancestry, originally from the traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Ojibwe, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples. She is a…
Allison Cutting

MSc with Terre Satterfield & Rashid Sumaila, 2022
Carly McGregor

MSc with Claire Kremen, 2022; Lab Manager, UBC Plant-Insect Ecology & Evolution Lab
Yeonuk Kim

PhD with Mark Johnson, 2023; IRES Postdoc
Madison Stevens

PhD with Dr. Terre Satterfield, 2023
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
Selina Agbayani

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

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

PhD with Stephanie Chang, 2022
Lekha Tlhotlhalemaje

MA with David Boyd, 2022