Building Capital: The Social Dimension of Sustainable Development

Judith Maxwell, President,
Canadian Policy Research Networks
Judith Maxwell is President and Founder of Canadian Policy Research Networks, whose mission is to create knowledge and lead public debate in order to help make Canada a more just, prosperous, and caring society.

CPRN research programs focus on health, family policy and work. In addition, its Public Involvement Program enables citizens to engage effectively in policy discussion on these issues. These activities involve collaboration by researchers in a number of universities and research agencies across Canada as well as the active participation of policy advisors and analysts in the public, private, and non-profit sectors. The research is funded by a variety of public and private sector organizations.

Mrs. Maxwell is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Ottawa, and is a Fellow of the School of Policy Studies at Queen's University. She is a member of the Board of Directors of Clarica (formerly the Mutual Life Assurance Company of Canada) and BCE Inc. among others. She is a member of the Order of Canada and has been awarded honorary degrees by seven Canadian Universities.

Mrs. Maxwell has long experience in both public sector and private sector think tanks. She was Chair of the Economic Council of Canada from 1985 to 1992. Prior to 1985, she worked as a consultant, as Director of Policy Studies at the C.D. Howe Institute and as a journalist

His BA is in Urbanism, MSW in Community Development and he managed to participate in two doctoral programmes: Community Development, and then Community Plannning and Political Economy through the first thesis draft stage before deciding he was an activist, not an academic.

He is a monthly participant on CBC Almanac's Food Panel and appears regularly in all media. Herb is co-author of "FarmFolk/CityFolk", the book, and is currently working on his second book. Many folks consider Herb Barbolet to be a prominent leader of the sustainable food movement in Canada.
 

He now calls himself an ecological socio-political economist—not because he knows any answers, but because he’s come to believe that’s the only way the questions can reasonably be framed.

Most recently he served as Principal Investigator leading the Canadian team in the ten-country Social Learning Group (Report published by MIT Press, 2001), and as a member of the expert panel on Canadian Marine Fisheries in a Changing and Uncertain World, set up by the Canadian Global Change Program of the Royal Society of Canada (Report published by NRC Press, 1999). He has served as President of the Canadian section of the North American Institute, and as President of the Maritime Awards Society of Canada, whose report last year on the public policy questions at issue in relation to the moratorium on offshore hydrocarbon exploration and development stimulated considerable media response, leading to the recent (January 2002) report of the British Columbia Scientific Panel on Offshore Hydrocarbon Exploration, for which he served as Project Director.
 

He is the founding chairperson of  New Dawn Enterprises, which has grown to an annual budget of six million dollars and employs 175 people. He is also the founding chairperson of BCA Holdings, a community venture-finance company with assets of almost two million dollars. He authored "New Age Business", published by the Canadian Council on Social Development, "From Mondragon To America - experiments in community economic development", available in English and Japanese, and a series of case studies consisting of both books and videos.

Ordained in 1961, he completed his Ph.D. (La Plus Grande Distinction) in 1969 at the University of Louvain, Belgium, immediately began his post-graduate year at Balliol College, Oxford, UK. Dr. MacLeod has spent the last 25 years as a Professor of Philosophy at the University College of Cape Breton and organizing Economic Development Projects in Canada and Mexico. During the last several years he was an invited speaker for provincial government workshops in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Yukon.

In recognition of his tireless efforts, he has received Honorary Doctorates from St. Francis Xavier University, Atlantic School of Theology, and Dalhousie University.