Annual IISD and IISD-ELA Board and Partner Dinner—June 2016
On June 23, 2016, IISD hosted a dinner event at the Qualico Family Centre at Assiniboine Park in Winnipeg convening leaders from business, government, academia and civil society to discuss key sustainability issues and Canada's role in addressing them.
The dinner included speeches by the Honourable Cathy Cox, Manitoba Minister of Sustainable Development; the Honourable Lloyd Axworthy, IISD board member; Alan Young, IISD Board Chair; and Scott Vaughan, IISD President and CEO.
Members of the IISD board, IISD-ELA board, IISD staff and George Lee, Chairman, DeTao Group
Hon. Lloyd Axworthy, IISD board member
Hon. Cathy Cox, Manitoba Minister of Sustainable Development
Hon. Ralph Eichler, Manitoba Minister of Agriculture; Hon. Cathy Cox, Manitoba Minister of Sustainable Development; and Scott Vaughan, IISD President and CEO
Xindi Hu, Director, DeTao Media; Hon. Lloyd Axworthy, IISD board member; Alan Young, IISD Board Chair; Mark Halle, Vice-President, IISD-Europe; George Lee, Chairman, DeTao Group; Ian Stewart, IISD board member; Hong Wang, General Manager, Sanya DeTao Nature Capital Investment Co. Ltd.; Rui Wu, Deputy General Manager, Detao Masters Academy
Alan Young, IISD Board Chair; Scott Vaughan, IISD President and CEO; and Dave Courchene, Elder, Turtle Lodge
Laura Merrill, IISD Senior Researcher, and Nathalie Bernasconi-Osterwalder, IISD Group Director, Economic Law and Policy
Hank Venema, Director of Planning, Prairie Climate Centre; Anne Hammill, IISD Director Resilience; and James Battershill, General Manager, Keystone Agricultural Producers
Susan Fraser, IISD-ELA Director of Development; Gail Asper, Gail Asper Family Foundation; and Mark Lyng, IISD-ELA Operations Manager
Hon. Cathy Cox, Manitoba Minister of Sustainable Development, and Hon. Terry Duguid, MP Winnipeg South
Matthew McCandless, IISD-ELA Executive Director, and Alan McLaughlin, McLaughlin Capital Management
Scott Vaughan, IISD President and CEO; Grant Doak, Manitoba Deputy Minister of Sustainable Development; Sheila Fraser, IISD-ELA board member; Hon. Cathy Cox, Manitoba Minister of Sustainable Development; Bruce Verry, Special Assistant to Minister Cathy Cox
Ian Stewart, IISD Board Member; George Lee, Chairman, DeTao Group; and Xindi Hu, Director, DeTao Media
Herbert Enns, OS1 Architecture; Matthew McCandless, IISD-ELA Executive Director; and Michael Paterson, IISD-ELA Chief Research Scientist
Glen Crook, IISD-ELA board member, and Mark Halle, Vice-President, IISD-Europe
Robert Walker, IISD board member; Hon. Jon Gerrard, MLA River Heights; and Pauline Gerrard, IISD Institutional Development Coordinator
Livia Bizikova, IISD Knowledge Director; Greg Radford, IGF Director; Nathalie Bernasconi-Osterwalder, IISD Group Director, Economic Law and Policy; Dimple Roy, IISD Director, Water; and Christian Ledwell, IISD Resilience Media and Communications Officer
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