

Administrative team

Sidney Ribaux
sponsor and funding partner
Sidney is Executive Director of Équiterre, Quebec’s largest environmental organization and co-author of this research initiative. His passion for urban planning led him to chair the Montreal Regional Council on the Environment from 1996 to 2003. He also participated in efforts to increase funding for public transit in Quebec, as well as in Canada's ratification of the Kyoto Protocol. Sidney is a former Ashoka Fellow and honorary fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. Read more about Sidney

James Boothroyd
managing director
James is co-author of EcoAnalytics, a former journalist and communications consultant with broad experience in Canada’s environmental movement and international public health. As Principal of Boothroyd Communications (2012-) his clients have included many of Canada’s leading environmental groups. He has also served as Director of Communications for the David Suzuki Foundation (2010-2012) and as a writer & researcher for the World Health Organization and Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria (2005-2010). Read more about James

Erick Lachapelle
research partner
Erick is Associate Professor of Political Science, at the Université de Montréal. As well as teaching environmental politics and research methods at UdM, Erick is the lead researcher for several major international and Canadian public opinion surveys addressing climate, energy and environmental issues. The focus of his research is on public attitudes toward risk and environmental issues, political communication, and the way in which public attitudes influence the development of public policy. Erick’s research has appeared in such journals as Environmental Politics, Climate Policy, Energy Policy, Global Environmental Politics and the Policy Studies Journal Read more about Erick

Richard Nadeau
research associate
Richard is Professor of Political Science at the Université de Montréal, where he teaches courses on political behaviour and research methods. His research focuses on political communication and public opinion. A Fulbright Scholar and a former chief advisor to the premier of Quebec, Richard has authored or co-authored over 175 articles in prestigious journals and chapters and books including Unsteady State, Anatomy of a Liberal Victory, Health Care Policy and Opinion in Canada and the United States, and Le comportement électoral des Québécois (Donald Smiley Award 2010). Read more about Richard
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