Jon O'Riordan, School of Community & Regional Planning, UBC

Jon O'Riordan is a former Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Sustainable Resource Management in the British Columbia Provincial Government. He has completed 35 years in the public service, mostly with the Provincial Government in environmental management and land and resource planning. In
his most recent position in Sustainable Resource Management he was responsible for completing six regional land and resource management plans.
He also led the development of Land Information BC where all the provincial data and information on legal title and resource values on Crown and private lands are stored. This will be the first integrated information base in the province and when completed in 2007 will be a leading edge example of an integrated geo-referenced data base for any provincial jurisdiction in Canada.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
-- Gandhi