BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//School of Public Policy and Global Affairs//NONSGML Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://sppga.ubc.ca/events/event/ X-WR-CALDESC:School of Public Policy and Global Affairs - Events BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20181205T0852Z-1543999972.2775-EO-6502-5@137.82.45.12 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260814T202103Z CREATED:20160804T232759Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181214T232328Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20160908T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20160908T140000 SUMMARY: MPPGA Policy Salon DESCRIPTION: Join us for our annual Policy Salon to welcome new and returni ng MPPGA students and explore pressing issues of local\, national and globa l concern. Students\, Faculty\, Senior Administrators\, staff\, community l eaders\, partners and employers from government\, the corporate sector\, an d non-governmental organizations are invited to attend. Please RSVP. Light refreshments will be served. The Salon will […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Policy Salon
Join us for our annual Policy Salon to welcome new an d returning MPPGA students and explore pressing issues of local\, national and global concern. Students\, Faculty\, Senior Administrators\, staff\, co mmunity leaders\, partners and employers from government\, the corporate se ctor\, and non-governmental organizations are invited to attend.

Please RSVP. Light refreshments will be served.

The Salon w ill open with a traditional Musqueam welcome. Policy Speakers include:

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  • George Hoberg\, Professor\, Environmental and Natur al Resource Policy\, Liu Institute for Global Issues\, UBC
  • Eva Busza\, Vice-President\, Research and Programs\, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada
  • Paul Kershaw\, Associate Prof essor\, School of Population and Public Health\, UBC
  • Stepha nie Chang\, Professor\, School of Community and Regional Planning & the Institute for Resources\, Environment\, and Sustainability\, UBC
  • Moderated by MPPGA Director Moura Quayle

    • F ollowing the Salon\, stay to mingle with students\, UBC faculty\, and polic y practitioners over light refreshments to learn more about the MPPGA progr am and the creation of the UBC Policy School.

    Salon Speaker B ios:

    Professor George Hoberg specializes in environmental and natural resource policy and governance. He received a BS from UC Berkeley\, and his PhD in political science from M IT. Before joining the Liu Institute\, Dr. Hoberg taught public policy and American politics in the Department of Political Science for 13 years\, and forest and energy policy in the Faculty of Forestry from 2001 to 2016. His research interests include environmental policy\, energy policy\, forest p olicy\, and more generally the design of policies and institutions to promo te sustainability. His current research focuses on the clean energy transfo rmation. He is writing a book on the resistance to oil sands pipelines and the challenges and opportunities of the clean energy transformation.

    Dr. Eva Busza is Vice-Preside nt\, Research and Programs\, at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. Prio r to joining the foundation\, she was Director of Policy and Strategic Plan ning for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Previous appointments also inclu de Team Leader for Asia Pacific in the UN’s Development Programme's Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery and Senior Advisor at the National Democ ratic Institute for International Affairs. Ms. Busza holds a Ph.D. from Sta nford University and a Master's degree from UBC.

    Associate Professor Paul Kershaw is a farmer mornin g and night. By day\, he is an academic\, public speaker\, media contributo r and volunteer. At UBC\, he is a leading scholar of public policy\, and a faculty member in the Human Early Learning Partnership.  In the Faculty of Medicine\, he focuses on the major policy levers that influence the social determinants of health\, with a particular interest in policy that shapes t hese determinants for younger generations. Kershaw founded the Generation Squeeze k nowledge mobilization campaign\, co-hosted at UBC and the non-profit Associ ation for Generational Equity. The campaign is building a powerful organiza tion to speak up for younger Canada in the market place and the world of po litics\, and is intended to become the largest community engagement initiat ive ever launched from a Canadian university.

    Pr ofessor Stephanie E. Chang joined UBC in January 2004 and has a joint appointment in the School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP ) and the Institute for Resources\, Environment\, and Sustainability (IRES) . She held a Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Disaster Management and Urba n Sustainability from 2004 to 2013. Much of Dr. Chang’s work aims to bridge the gap between engineering\, natural sciences\, and social sciences in ad dressing the complex issues of natural disasters. Dr. Chang is particularly interested in issues of disaster recovery and resilience\, urban infrastru cture systems\, and cities of the Pacific Rim.

    Pro fessor Moura Quayle is Director of the Liu Institute for Globa l Issues and UBC’s Master of Publi c Policy and Global Affairs program. Moura’s interests lie in rethinkin g\, refining and rebuilding collaborative spaces at the intersections of ac ademia\, government\, business and civil society. Her recent focus has been the Sauder d.studio\, a research and teaching studio that helps students a nd organizations learn to use design processes and tools to co-create innov ative solutions to complex problems.

    For further information\, please contact lindsay.marsh@ubc.ca

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