Dagmar Timmer

Dagmar Timmer holds an MA in Political Science from Simon Fraser University. She is co-founder and Manager (Strategic Initiatives) of One Earth [www.oneearthweb.org], a Vancouver-based non-profit research and advocacy group focused on transforming unsustainable consumption and production patterns locally, nationally and internationally. One Earth is actively engaged with the Canadian and US governments in the lead-up to the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development meetings in 2011 and the Earth Summit in 2012. Dagmar is an Associate with the International Institute for Sustainable Development [www.iisd.org] as well as with Simon Fraser University. She is Principal of Resourceful Solutions Consulting, based in Vancouver. Dagmar and her sister Vanessa are co-hosts of The Sustainable Region [www.thesustainableregion.org], an award-winning television show in Canada. Dagmar has published on leadership, conservation and development and is co-author of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, contributing to the tropical forest margins assessment while working in Kenya. She has been actively involved in sustainability policy, research and action for nearly two decades. From 2003-2005, Dagmar was Program Associate and Political Scientist with the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) [www.asb.cgiar.org] in Nairobi, Kenya. Her program facilitated a network of rainforest-agriculture margin research sites in the Amazon of Brazil and Peru, the Congo Basin forest of Cameroon, the island of Sumatra in Indonesia, the northern mountains of Thailand, and the island of Mindanao in the Philippines. Prior to joining ICRAF, Dagmar worked from 1999-2003 as a member of the Forest Conservation Programme team at IUCN – The World Conservation Union [www.iucn.org] in Switzerland.