William Rees, PhD

William Rees is a human ecologist, ecological economist, professor and former director of UBC’s School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP) in Vancouver. William’s research and teaching focus on the planning, policy and human behavioural responses to global ecological change, and he is best known in ecological economics as the originator and co-developer of ‘ecological footprint analysis.’ He is a founding member and past president of the Canadian Society for Ecological Economics, a founding director of the OneEarth Initiative, a fellow of the Post-Carbon Institute and a long-standing member of Global Ecological Integrity Group. Widely recognized for his research, William has been invited to lecture in 25 countries, he was elected to the Royal Society of Canada and in 2007, was awarded a prestigious Trudeau Foundation Fellowship. William holds a Doctorate in ecology from the University of Toronto.