
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
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Claire Ewing
MSc with Amanda Giang and David Boyd, 2021; Senior Policy and Planning Analyst, Metro Vancouver
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Helina Jolly
PhD with Terre Satterfield & Milind Kandlikar, 2022; Research Associate, Interdisciplinary Biodiversity Solutions
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Jack Durant
MA with Daniel Steel & Gunilla Öberg, 2022
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Lisa Westerhoff
PhD w/ John Robinson, 2016; Principal of Policy and Planning, Integral Group
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Liz Williams
MSc w/ Kai Chan, 2017; Doctoral candidate in Psychology, University of Victoria
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Anthony W. Persaud
PhD w/ Terre Satterfield, 2021; Director of the Indigenous Home-Lands Initiative, Ecotrust Canada
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Sara Elder
PhD w/ Peter Dauvergne, 2016; Adjunct Professor, UBC IRES; Senior Policy Advisor, International Institute for Sustainable Development
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Sandeep Pai
PhD with Hisham Zerriffi, 2021; Senior Research Lead, Center for Strategic and International Studies
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Arielle Louise Swett
MA w/ Hadi Dowlatabadi, 2018; Policy Analyst, Arcadia; 2022 Fellow, Clean Energy Leadership Institute
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Darlene Seto
MA w/ Kathryn Harrison, 2012; Lead: Policy and Partnerships, Foundry BC
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Vanessa Timmer
PhD with Peter Nemetz, 1997; Executive Director, OneEarth; Senior Research Fellow, Utrecht University
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Myriam Khalfallah
PhD w/ Daniel Pauly, 2020; Postdoctoral Fellow, UBC IOF
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Erika Luna Perez
MSc with Navin Ramankutty & Amanda Giang, 2022; Policy Analyst, International Institute for Sustainable Development
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Nathaniel K. Newlands
PhD w/ Tony Pitcher, 2002; Research Scientist, Government of Canada; Adjunct Professor, University of Victoria
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Sameer Shah
PhD with Leila Harris, 2021; Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Pittsburgh
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Tugce Conger
PhD with Stephanie Chang, 2018; Senior Planner, City of Vancouver
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Daniel Klein
MSc with Gunilla Öberg, 2017; Senior Utility Planning Engineer, City of Vancouver
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Sarah C. Klain
PhD with Kai Chan & Terre Satterfield, 2016; Assistant Professor, Utah State University
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Evan Bowness
PhD with Hannah Wittman, 2021; Postdoctoral Fellow, University of the Fraser Valley
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Harold Eyster
PhD with Kai Chan, 2021; Gund Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Vermont
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David Righter
MSc with Stephanie Chang, 2021; Environmental Planner, state of Massachusetts
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Sonja Wilson
MSc with Hadi Dowlatabadi, 2012; Principal with Reshape Strategies
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Graham McDowell
PhD with Leila Harris and Michele Koppes, 2020; Banting Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Zurich; Project Leader, Canadian Mountain Assessment
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Sara Nawaz
PhD with Terre Satterfield, 2021; Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Oxford
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Paul Teehan
PhD with Milind Kandlikar & Hadi Dowlatabadi, 2013; Software Engineering Lead
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Sophia Murphy
PhD with Hannah Wittman, 2021; Executive Director of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
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Brynley Hanson-Wright
MSc with Jiaying Zhao, 2022
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Julia Craig
MSc with Kai Chan, 2022
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Diana Bedolla López
MA with Gunilla Oberg, 2023
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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…
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Yeonuk Kim
PhD with Mark Johnson, 2023; IRES Postdoc
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Juan Diego Martinez
PhD with Navin Ramankutty, 2023 Applied Research Coordinator, Climate Action and Food Systems | UBC
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Selina Agbayani
MSc with Andrew Trites, 2022 Aquatic Biologist for Fisheries and Oceans Canada
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Dana James
PhD w/ Hannah Wittman, 2022; Postdoctoral Researcher, Faculty of Land and Food Systems, UBC
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Alexa Tanner
PhD with Stephanie Chang, 2022
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Lekha Tlhotlhalemaje
MA with David Boyd, 2022