Tim is the Program Director at the Ivey Foundation. Tim’s professional focus has been in the areas of forest policy and practice, conservation design and land-use planning. He has specialized in project development and management, negotiation, market development and government relations. Tim has been a member of several Ministerial Advisory Committees including the Ontario government’s Old Growth Forest Policy Advisory Committee, the Forest Accord Advisory Board and the Ministers Council on Forest Sector Competitiveness. He co-led the ENGO intervener group in the Ontario Timber Class Environmental Assessment and the Partnership for Public Lands ENGO collaboration during Ontario’s Lands for Life land-use planning process. He also has taken roles related to the development and use of market mechanisms to achieve conservation change and been involved in the development of FSC Canadian regional standards and of procurement policies in Central America.
Tim was a founding Board member of Global Forest Watch Canada and his current commitments include membership on the Ontario Provincial Forest Policy Committee and the Boards of Directors of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, the Wildlife Conservation Society Canada, and the Steering Committee of the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement.
Tim worked as an executive director and senior program manager with the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society from 1990 until 2005. Tim joined the Ivey Foundation as Program Director in November 2005.
Tim obtained an undergraduate degree in Biology from Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario in 1987 and a M.Sc. in Botany/Environmental Studies from the University of Toronto in 1992.