 | Anne
Lambert
(Managing Director) has a
degree in wildlife biology from the University of Guelph and worked as a biologist at Long Point Bird
Observatory and at the Wildlife Research section of the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources before
starting a business (Science Connection)
in 1991. |  |
| Tom Welch (Managing Director) holds degrees from
Queen's
University and the University of
Windsor and has founded and run several small businesses, most recently Trumps Fish Ltd. He serves
on the Board of the Ecology Action Centre. Tom and
Anne live in Chester, Nova Scotia and founded ICFC in 2007. |  |
| Barbara Zimmerman (Kayapo Program Director and Tropical Ecologist)
trained as
a tropical
ecologist, doing field research in the Brazilian Amazon for Master's (University of Guelph) and
PhD (Florida State University) degrees on an amphibian and reptile community in terra firme
forest.
Since 1989 she has been working with the Kayapo Indians of Brazil's Xingu Basin to develop
conservation-based economic alternatives to logging and to strengthen Kayapo capacity for territorial
control so that they are able to continue to protect from deforestation 110,000 km2 of
their legally ratified territories.
Barbara works closely with ICFC's Kayapo NGO partners, other Brazilian NGOs and government
agencies, and, of course, the Kayapo people themselves. |  |
| John McWilliams, QC (Director), has over 30 years experience in the
international oil
and gas
business and recently retired as Senior Vice-President and General Counsel, Nexen Inc. He is counsel
to Fraser, Milner, Casgrain LLP. John has played a leadership role in governance, ethics and corporate
responsibility, including the development of the International Code of Ethics for Canadian Business, a
portion of which, human rights, was adopted by the United Nations Global Compact. He is Board Chair
of the EPCOR CENTRE for the Performing Arts, a former Director of Transparency International
Canada, former President of the Canadian Petroleum Law Foundation, Founding Director of Bank West,
and winner of the 2006 Canadian General Counsel Award for Corporate Governance.
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