David Runnalls

In addition to EDC, Mr. Runnalls is President of IISD and also serves as Co-Chair of the China Council Task Force on WTO and Environment.
He is presently a member of the federal External Advisory Committee on Smart Regulation (EACSR), an adjudicator with the ALCAN Prize for Sustainability, and has recently been appointed to the Advisory Panel on Sustainability for the Minister of Public Works and Government Services Canada.
Mr. Runnalls has served as Senior Advisor to the President of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) in Ottawa, Canada, and to the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme.
He was Director of the Environment and Sustainable Development Programme at the Institute for Research on Public Policy in Ottawa.
He worked with Barbara Ward to found the International Institute for Environment and Development and directed both its London and Washington offices.
Mr. Runnalls was the Canadian Board member of IUCN-the World Conservation Union for six years and the Chair of the Committee for the World Conservation Congress in 1996.
He is a member of the Boards of the World Environment Center (New York), IIED (London) and Pollution Probe (Toronto).
An occasional writer and broadcaster, he has served as environment columnist for the CBC radio program, As it Happens and for CTV's Canada am.
He was a member of the Discovery Channel's regular environment panel and political columnist for the Earth Times, the paper of record for the United Nations Earth Summit in 1992.