The Scientific Advisory Board includes many of the world’s senior experts in the analysis of complex systems, along with outstanding researchers from universities in British Columbia and across Canada. The Institute consults these board members regularly and on occasion bring them to the University individually to advise Institute researchers and administrators.
Bentley Allan
Associate Director, Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions (PICS), Canada
Brian Belcher
Professor, Canada Research Chair, School of Interdisciplinary Studies, Royal Roads University, Canada
Steven Bernstein
Professor, Political Science, University of Toronto, Canada; Co-Director, Environmental Governance Lab, Canada
Michael Byers
Canada Research Chair, Global Politics and International Law, University of British Columbia, Canada
Angela Carter
Associate Professor, Political Science, University of Waterloo, Canada
Robin Cox
Professor, Disaster and Emergency Management, Royal Roads University, Canada; Director, ResilienceByDesign Lab, Canada
Ann Dale
Professor and Canada Research Chair, School of Environment and Sustainability, Royal Roads University, Canada
Rod Dobell
Professor Emeritus, Public Policy, University of Victoria, Canada; Senior Research Associate, Centre for Global Studies, University of Victoria, Canada
J. Doyne Farmer
Director, Complexity Economics programme, Institute for New Economic Thinking, Oxford Martin School, UK; Professor, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, UK
Diane T. Finegood
Professor and Fellow, Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Trevor Hancock
Professor and Senior Scholar, Public Health and Social Policy, University of Victoria, Canada
Dirk Helbing
Professor, Computation Social Science, ETH Zurich, Switzerland; Affiliate professor, Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, TU Delft, The Netherlands
Matt Hoffmann
Professor, Political Science, University of Toronto, Canada; Co-Director, Environmental Governance Lab, Canada
Mark Jaccard
Professor and Director, School of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Jonathan Leader Maynard
Lecturer, International Politics, King’s College London, UK
Matto Mildenberger
Assistant Professor, Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh
Co-Director, Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER), University of Cambridge, UK
Ted Parson
Dan and Rae Emmett Professor of Environmental Law and Faculty Co-Director, Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Johan Rockström
Director, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Professor, Earth System Science, University of Potsdam, Germany.
Marten Scheffer
Professor, Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management, Wageningen University and Research Centre, The Netherlands
Maja Schlüter
Professor, Sustainability Science, Stockholm University, Sweden
Oliver Schmidtke
Professor, History, Political Science, University of Victoria, Canada; Director, Centre for Global Studies, University of Victoria, Canada
Vanessa Schweizer
Associate Professor, Knowledge Integration, University of Waterloo, Canada
Lee Smolin
Senior faculty member, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Canada
Leah Stokes
Assistant Professor, Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Jennifer Welsh
Professor; Canada 150 Research Chair in Global Governance and Security, McGill University, Canada
Frances Westley
JW McConnell Chair in Social Innovation, University of Waterloo, Canada