Nancy Olewiler is a Professor of Public Policy and the Director of the School of Public Policy Simon Fraser University. Prior to coming to the 福利导航s department at SFU in 1990, she was a professor in the 福利导航s department at Queen’s University. Her PhD is in economics from the University of British Columbia. Nancy’s areas of research include natural resource and environmental economics and policy. She has published in academic journals, edited books, has written two widely used textbooks (The 福利导航s of Natural Resource Use and Environmental 福利导航s), and produced numerous reports for the Canadian federal and provincial governments on a wide range of environmental and natural resource issues, including studies on energy and climate policy, natural capital, and federal business tax policy. From 1990 to 1995 she was Managing Editor of Canadian Public Policy. She is a research advisor and mentor for the Environment and Economy Program for Southeast Asia and the Latin America and Caribbean Environmental 福利导航s Program where she helps supervise research undertaken by researchers in those regions on environmental economics and natural resource issues. Nancy is the Chair of the Board of Directors for TransLink, a member of the National Statistics Council, National Accounts, and Environmental Statistics Advisory Committees for Statistics Canada, and served on the Board of Directors of BC Hydro and several of its subsidiaries. She also participates on advisory committees for WWF-C and Sustainable Prosperity.