ethiquette now has the support of a very gifted and experienced advisory committee which meets several times a year to review the site's Criteria and the decision-making process applied when approving products and services. Below are biographies for all actual members.
Catherine Benoît, M.S.
Catherine acts as the research
coordinator for social life cycle assessment (SLCA) within the CIRAIG
(www.ciraig.org), a world-renowned research body based at the University
of Quebec at Montreal business school. She is the lead editor
of the Code of Practice for the Social Life Cycle Analysis that will be published by the UNEP Life
Cycle Initiative in 2009 (http://lcinitiative.unep.fr/). She is currently completing a PhD in administrative science in
the Montreal joint doctoral program (McGill-UQAM-HEC-Concordia). In her position at Sylvatica consultants, she develops and applies methods, tools and
databases for social life cycle assessments.
Pascale Caron, C.A.
Trained as a Chartered Accountant in France, Pascale Caron founded the Pythagore collective in 1996, a consulting group specializing in the development of social economy businesses. Shortly thereafter, she became a financial analyst with the Caisse d'economie sociale Desjardins, a major Quebec credit union which serves the social economy sector and particularly, the cooperative, community development and cultural sectors. Since 2004, she holds the title of chief advisor on strategic development within the Caisse d'economie solidaire.
Beth Hunter, M.S.
Beth Hunter is the Oceans Campaign
Coordinator for Greenpeace Canada, working to raise public awareness of
the crisis facing global oceans and help supermarkets move to more
sustainable seafood sourcing policies. A co-founder of Équiterre, Beth
worked as general director and then coordinator of the Ecological
Agriculture Programmefor six years. She holds a bachelors degree from
the Liberal Arts College of Concordia University and a MSc in
RuralEconomics from Laval University and has worked and lived in
Brazil, Bénin and Lebanon. She has authored numerous reports and books
including Hungry for Justice: the Montreal Guide to
Socially Responsible Food Choices, a guide to Community Supported
Agriculture and Out of Stock: Supermarkets and the future of seafood.
**Note:Ms. Hunter's presence on our committee does not imply official endorsement of the site by Greenpeace Canada.
Chris Lowry, M. Ed.
Chris Lowry, is a consultant and entrepreneur who has founded and
managed both independent media production businesses and non-profit
organizations. He served as a Senior Consultant with international agencies such as CIDA Policy Branch, UN Drug Control Program (Nairobi) and UNDP/UNAIDS (Bangkok). He was a co-founder of Street Kids International (SKI), was senior editor of The Journal of Wild Culture, and has also worked with agencies such as MSF/Doctors Without Borders (Canada). Chris is the founder and Network Director of Green Enterprise
TorontoGET (www.greenenterprise.net), an alliance of local,
sustainable, independent businesses and customers. GET is the Toronto
network of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE).
François Meloche
François is an extra-financial risk analyst for Batirente, a pension management organization associated with Quebec's CSN union. In the past, Francois has worked for several years with companies specialized in the rating of companies according to social and environmental criteria including Jantzi
Research and the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR). Francois is one of the founding members of Equiterre.
Coro Strandberg
Coro Strandberg, Principal of Strandberg
Consulting, has worked in the sustainability field for over twenty
years. She was a Director of Vancity Credit Union for 12 years where as
Chair of the Board she helped position the credit union as an
international leader in corporate social responsibility. Coro founded
the Vancity Community Foundation and co-founded the
Victoria Values-Based Business Network. She was also instrumental in
creating the Sustainability Purchasing Network, which provides training
and advisory services to organizations seeking to integrate
environmental, social and ethical perspectives into their buying
decisions.
Caroline Vadnais
Caroline Vadnais is trained as an engineer. Since 2001, she has worked in the product testing department of Les
Éditions Protégez-Vous, a nonprofit consumer information group whose mission is to help citizens develop informed opinions on consumer goods and services as well as issues related to consumerism. The organization publishes Protégez-Vous magazine, a consumer report monthly that is among Quebec's most widely read periodicals.
**Note: Ms. Vadnais' presence on our committee does not imply official endorsement ofthe site by Les Éditions Protégez-Vous.
