Mark Jaccard

Canadian climate change expert, Mark Jaccard PhD is an award-winning professor in environmental management, CEO and extensive academic author.

With a PhD from the University of Grenoble’s Energy Economics and Policy Institute, Jaccard has gone on to become a professor at the Simon Fraser University, Vancouver at their School of Resource and Environmental Management since 1986. Of his other leading roles, Jaccard was also the CEO of the British Columbia Utilities Commission. Renowned for his environmental work, Jaccard has held positions on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development, and a panellist on the Canadian Prime Minister’s Roundtable for the Environment and the Economy. He was also a panellist as part of the Council of Canadian Academies. Of his other achievements, Jaccard frequently gives testimony before the Canadian parliament. He also played a key role in British Columbia’s clean electricity standard and carbon tax.

An esteemed author, Jaccard has published over 100 academic publications on energy, economics and sustainability. He is also the author of his books The Citizen’s Guide To Climate Success and Sustainable Fossil Fuels, for which he went on to win the Donner Prize for Canada’s best policy book. As an award-winning professor, Jaccard was also named Academic of the year in 2008. He has since on to serve as a Fellow at the Royal Society of Canada in 2009.