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Alexander
Wood
Acting President and CEO
NRTEE
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Biography
Alexander Wood is a graduate of the University of
Toronto and of the Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced
International Studies. His academic training is in international
relations and international economics.
Alex has worked in a variety of non-profit, private,
and public sector settings, focussing principally on issues of economic
development and the environment. He spent ten years in Washington,
DC, working on international environmental policy and environmental
economics, before joining the National Round Table on the Environment
and the Economy (NRTEE) Secretariat in January 2002. At the Round
Table, he has helped lead the NRTEE's response to a major request
from the Prime Minister to provide advice on a long-term climate
change and energy policy for Canada. He has also directed the Round
Table's Ecological Fiscal Reform and Energy program, which examined
the role of fiscal policy in promoting the long-term reduction of
carbon emissions from energy production and use in Canada.
His present position is Acting President and CEO of
the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy.
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