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Brenda Eaton Brenda Eaton Is the Chair of the Board of Trustees For Brenda Eaton Brenda Eaton is the Chair of the Board of Trustees for the Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education. Brenda is a corporate director, sitting on a number of corporate and not‐for‐profit Boards. She has chaired BC Housing, which is responsible for developing and managing subsidized housing, and has also sat on the boards of Terasen Inc., Powertech, Transelec, Canada West Foundation and Max Bell Foundation. Prior to becoming a corporate director, Brenda held a variety of senior positions in finance, including four years as CFO at a health authority. She also served as Deputy Minister in a number of government departments. For four years she was Deputy Minister to British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell. Brenda has been awarded the Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal, has three times been named in the 100 Most Powerful Women in Canada, and in 2008 was voted Consumer Choice's BC Business Woman of the Year. Brenda received her bachelors and masters degrees in Economics from the University of Victoria and is a regular speaker on performance management and board governance. Victor Chan Victor Chan is a Trustee and founding Director of the Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education. Chan has known the Dalai Lama for over 30 years and co‐authored with him the Wisdom of Forgiveness: Intimate Conversations and Journeys. The book was shortlisted for the Best Spiritual Book of 2005 (Nautilus Prize, New York) and translated into 14 languages. Chan was Chair of the Organizing Committee responsible for the visit of the Dalai Lama to Vancouver in 2004. He and Professor Pitman Potter, Director of the Institute of Asian Research, UBC convened the symposium on "How to Balance Educating the Mind with Educating the Heart" which featured the Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Shirin Ebadi, Rabbi Zalman Schachter‐ Shalomi and Professor Jo‐Ann Archibald. With Potter, Chan was instrumental in establishing a Contemporary Tibetan Studies Program at UBC and was the first Executive Director of that program. In 2005, Chan and the Dalai Lama co‐founded the Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education in Vancouver, Canada. In response to Chan’s invitation, the Dalai Lama returned to Vancouver in September 2006 to attend the Vancouver Dialogues dedicated to promoting the Center’s key themes of compassion, peace and education. In September 2009, the Dalai Lama Center and Chan will be hosting the Vancouver Peace Summit, featuring five Nobel Peace Prize Laureates and many other visionaries from around the world. Chan has travelled extensively through his work, including numerous treks to Tibet. He wrote the 1,100‐page Tibet Handbook: A Pilgrimage Guide, published by Moon Travel Handbooks in 1994. The book is recognized as the most comprehensive guide on the culture, art, sacred sites, and pilgrimage routes of Tibet. Evan Alderson Evan Alderson has recently retired from a long faculty career at Simon Fraser University. He received a Ph.D. in English from the University of California at Berkeley and began his teaching career at SFU in 1967. He has published widely in literary, artistic and cultural studies. At SFU, Evan was the Founding Director of the School for the Contemporary Arts, Founding Director of the Graduate Liberal Studies Program, a co‐founder of the Integrated Studies Program and a co‐founder of the Learning Strategies Group. From 1992‐1997, he was the Dean of the Faculty of Arts. Gwyn Morgan Gwyn Morgan, from Calgary, Alberta, is one of Canada's most distinguished business leaders. A petroleum engineering graduate from the University of Alberta, he led the building of one of the world's leading oil and gas companies and Canada's largest energy company, EnCana Corporation. Mr. Morgan was founding President and Chief Executive Officer of EnCana from 2002 until stepping down on January 1, 2006. Mr. Morgan has been recognized through numerous awards and honorary distinctions, including being named Canada's most respected CEO in 2005 in a survey conducted by Ipsos Reid of 250 business leaders in Canada. An inductee to the Alberta Business hall of Fame, he has served on the Boards of a number of organizations in the private and not‐for‐profit sectors, including HSBC Bank of Canada, the SNC‐ Lavalin Group, Alcan Inc., the Public Policy Forum, the Fraser Institute and the Calgary University Hospital. Mr. Morgan was also the co‐chair of the Calgary Fundraising Committee for the Northern Alberta Children's Health Centre, co‐Chair of the Governor General's Canadian Leadership Conference, and is an honorary Colonel (retired) of the 410 Tactical Fighter Squadron, Canadian Air Force. James Hoggan Jim Hoggan is one of Canada’s most respected public‐relations professionals and the president and owner of the Vancouver PR firm Hoggan & Associates. A law school graduate with a longstanding passion for social justice, Jim also serves as chair of the David Suzuki Foundation—the nation’s most influential environmental organization—and as a Trustee of the Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education. He is the cofounder of Stonehouse Standing Circle, an innovative public‐engagement and communications think‐tank, and the former chair of The Climate Project Canada—Al Gore’s global education and advocacy organization. He also led the Province of British Columbia’s Green Energy Advisory Task Force on Community Relations and First Nations Partnerships. Jim is the co‐founder of the influential website DeSmogBlog and the author of two books, Do the Right Thing: PR Tips for a Skeptical Public, and Climate Cover‐up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming. He speaks, writes, and presents widely on public attitudes toward sustainability, climate change, and the environment. Martha C. Piper Dr. Martha Piper received her PhD in Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McGill University (1979), and has served as Director of the School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, McGill University (’79‐’85), Dean of the Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Alberta (’85‐’93) and Vice President, Research and External Affairs, University of Alberta (’93‐’97). From 1997 to 2006 she served as the 11th President of the University of British Columbia. In 2007, Dr. Piper assumed Board memberships with CARE Canada, the Institute for Research on Public Policy, the BC Children’s Hospital Foundation and the Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education. In 2008, Dr. Piper joined the Canadian Institutes of Advanced Research and assumed the Chair of the Board of the National Institute of Nanotechnology. Dr. Piper currently is a member of the Board of Directors of the Bank of Montreal, TransAlta Corporation, Shoppers Drug Mart, and Grosvenor Americas Ltd and is a member of the Trilateral Commission. The recipient of 16 honorary degrees, Dr. Piper is an officer in the Order of Canada and a member of the Order of British Columbia. She was named Educator of the Year by the Learning Partnership in 2004 and was appointed an Honorary Fellow of Merton College, Oxford University in 2007. Thomas Rafael Thomas E. Rafael received his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and LL.B. from the University of British Columbia. Mr. Rafael taught high school, designed and built experimental houses and worked in theatre before turning to the practice of law. For the last 25 years, he has worked with such notable and diverse clients as Nike and Greenpeace and his legal work has included native land claims as well as arguing cases before all levels of Courts including the Supreme Court of Canada. More recently, Mr. Rafael has been involved in the development of socially responsible housing and other forms of innovative and sustainable land development. .
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