Featured Instructors
Dan Acland
Dan Acland is Associate Professor of Practice in Public policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley. He is a behavioral economist whose research spans the intersections of Behavioral Economics, Benefit-Cost Analysis, and Economic Philosophy. Professor Acland teaches graduate courses in Economics for Policy Makers and Benefit-Cost Analysis, and a pair of undergraduate courses in Behavioral Economics. In addition, he leads a section of the Advanced Policy Analysis thesis seminar in the Master’s of Public Policy program.
Vic Adamowicz
Dr. W. L. (Vic) Adamowicz is the Vice Dean in the Faculty of Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sciences, and a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology, Faculty of Agricultural, Life & Environmental Sciences, University of Alberta. Adamowicz is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Academy II – Social Sciences (awarded in 2007). He became a Fellow of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists in 2019 and a Fellow of the Canadian Agricultural Economics Society in 2011. He is an expert in environmental valuation.
Nikki Clarke
Nikki Clarke, M.A., RP, PCC, is a certified coach through the International Coaching Federation and has experience working in the public and private sector in Canada and internationally. She has provided one-on-one coaching and facilitated workshops for executives, managers and professionals in the areas of leadership, communication, emotional and social intelligence, coaching, digital wellness, effective management and stress management.
Carole Norton
Carole Norton, M.A., PCC, CPCC is a leadership and organizational development coach with a broad range of experience coaching employees both within and outside of the public service. Carole also has significant Public Service leadership experience. Carole is an instructor with the Professional Development Institute, as well. Carole specializes in the domain of leadership (e.g. performance effectiveness). She is certified as a Professional Certified Coach with the International Coaching Federation (ICF).
Timothy Folkins
Timothy Folkins is a Expert Advisor at the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (TBS) within the Centre of Regulatory Expertise (CORE). He provides training, coaching and analytical expertise to departments and agencies on CBA to enable them to prepare regulatory submissions which comply with the Cabinet Directive on Regulation. He has worked with over 17 departments and agencies on hundreds of regulatory proposals, including under the Red Tape Reduction Act. Before coming to TBS, Timothy worked for over 6 years at Environment Canada as a Senior Economist specializing in the quantification and valuation of environmental impacts from air-quality and climate change.
Anna Alberini
Anna Alberini received her PhD in economics from the University of California San Diego. She is a professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resources Economics at UMD. She currently teaches PhD-level econometrics and an undergraduate course on the economics of climate change, and supervises numerous graduate and undergraduate research projects. She is an energy economist and an environmental economist with a major focus on the economics of health and safety and non-market valuation. Her energy economics research focuses on residential energy demand, energy efficiency decisions and consequences of such decisions, policies targeted as shaping residential energy demand, and on vehicle fuel economy and driving decisions. Alberini is currently a member of the Editorial Board of The Energy Journal, the International Advisory Board of Energy Policy, and an associate Editor of Energy Efficiency. She has served as the Chair of the American Statistical Association’s Advisory Committee to the US Energy Information Administration, and served two stints on the US EPA Science Advisory Board—Environmental Economics.
Tara Atleo
Tara Atleo hahuuła, PhD, is a stewardship economics researcher and Indigenous sustainable development practitioner from the Ahousaht First Nation, house of ƛaqišpiił. Tara is passionately committed to the principles of stewardship, dedicating her work to exploring innovative approaches to upholding and advancing Indigenous law and governance. Her focus in this area is the intersection of economic considerations as elements of sustainable development and natural resource management within Indigenous law and governance. She has written on topics including non-market valuation and the role it can play for empowerment in Indigenous law and governance contexts. Grounded in her community roots, Tara uses her perspective to challenge and expand economic thought and tools to create opportunities for communities that advance efforts towards intergenerational equity.
Timothy Wieclawski
Timothy Wieclawski is a Senior Advisor at the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (TBS) in the Centre of Regulatory Expertise. He advises and supports departments and agencies on cost-benefit analysis (CBA) to enable them to prepare regulatory submissions that comply with the Cabinet Directive on Regulation. Before joining CORE in 2020, Tim worked as a CBA analyst at Transport Canada and Environment and Climate Change Canada. He holds a Master of Arts (Economics) from Carleton University and a Journalism diploma from Algonquin College.
Varuna Sahgal
Varuna Sahgal is a Senior Advisor at the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (TBS) in the Centre of Regulatory Expertise (CORE). She provides coaching and analytical expertise to departments and agencies on Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA) to enable them to prepare regulatory submissions which comply with the Cabinet Directive on Regulation. She has worked in CORE for 6 years providing guidance and the challenge function on CBA for Departments such as Health Canada, CFIA, IRCC, DOJ, and Public Safety. Before coming to TBS, Varuna was the lead CBA analyst for 8 years at IRCC. Prior to joining the public service, she worked for 9 years in the private sector as a transportation consultant at Hickling Lewis Brod, Market Research Analyst at the Ottawa International Airport, Director of Economic Affairs at Airports Council International in Washington DC and Research and Marketing Manager at the Canberra Airport in Australia.