Biography
Dr. Jaccard has been a professor at Simon Fraser University since 1986. He served as Chair and CEO of the B.C. Utilities Commission (1992 to 1997), on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (1993 to 1996; Nobel Peace Prize in 2007), and on the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (1996 to 2001). Until 2005 Dr. Jaccard taught ecological economics at REM and he continues to teach courses on energy and materials management, policy and energy and materials systems modeling. Currently, he is a lead author on the Global Energy Assessment (due in 2011), a member of Canada's National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy and a special advisor to the Canadian Council of Chief Executives. In 2007, he won the SFU President's Award for Media and his book, Sustainable Fossil Fuels, won the Donner Prize for best policy book in Canada. In 2008 he was named the BC Academic of the Year by the Confederation of University Faculty Associations and in 2009 he was named a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Dr. Jaccard is also responsible for the Canadian Industrial Energy End-use Data and Analysis Centre and is part owner in M.K. Jaccard and Associates Inc., a private consulting group based in Vancouver.
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