Board Members and Committees
Board members
Ute Maya-Giambattista, B.Arch, MPI, MCIP, RPP, LEED AP – President & Treasurer
Principal, Urban Design, O2 Planning + Design Inc., Toronto, ON
Jana Kelemen, M.Sc.Arch., MUDS, MCIP, RPP – Vice President
Manager, Heritage and Urban Design, City of Hamilton, ON
Geoff Dyer, MEDes (Urban Design), CNUa. – Vice President
Partner, Master Planning & Urban Design Strategic Lead, B&A Planning Group, Calgary
Jean Trottier, CSLA, CIP, RPP – Chairperson
Associate Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Manitoba
Ana Cecilia Jimenez – Secretary
Executive Coordinator
Urban Designer, FOTENN, Toronto, ON
Tyson McShane, RPP, MCIP
Long Range Planning Manager, City of Saskatoon
John Smit, BES, MCIP, RPP
City of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON
Chris Hardwicke
Principal, Urban Design, O2 Planning + Design Inc., Calgary
Sarah Anderson, MCIP, RPP
Manager, Development Planning, City of Moncton
Eric Lucic, MCIP
Director, Strategic Projects | Planning & Development, City of Halifax
Craig Sklenar, M.UD, M.Pl, AICP
Principal, Urban Places, Stantec Consulting, Ltd.
Honourary board members
Daniel Leeming, FCIP, RPP
Principal, The Planning Partnership, Toronto, ON
Robert Freedman, FRAIC, AICP
Director at Freedman Urban Solutions, Toronto, ON
Larry Beasley, CM, FCIP
Principal, Beasley and Associates, Planning Inc., Vancouver, BC
Ken Greenberg, FRAIC, Assoc AIA,
Principal, Greenberg Consultants Inc, Toronto, ON
Joe Berridge, FCIP, RPP
Partner, Urban Strategies, Toronto, ON
Paul Bedford, FCIP, RPP
Urban Mentor, Adjunct professor, Urban & Regional Planning, University of Toronto/Ryerson University Toronto, ON
Aurele Cardinal, OAQ, OUQ, FIRAC Principal, Cardinal Hardy, Montréal, QC
David Witty, PhD, MRAIC, FCIP
Vice President Academic and Provost, Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo, BC
Jack Diamond, OAA, FRAIC, FCIP
Principal, Diamond Schmidt Architects, Toronto, ON
Mike Harcourt, LL.D
Associate Director, Continuing Studies Centre for Sustainability
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
Lloyd Axworthy, PC, OC, OM
President, University of Winnipeg, MB
Nancy Shoiry,
Directrice principale – Service de la mise en valeur du territoire at the Ville de Montréal
Robert Allsopp, ARIBA, MRTPI, MCIP, RPP, FCSLA
Partner, DTAH, Toronto, ON
Committees & Chairs
Research Committee
Dr. David L.A. Gordon, FCIP, RPP, P.Eng, AICP
Professor and Director, School of Urban & Regional Planning, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON
Urbanizing the Suburbs Caucus
Alex Taranu OAA, RPP, FCIP
Senior Advisor of Architectural Design Service, Public Works and Engineering, City of Brampton, ON
Urban Resiliency Caucus
Dan Leeming FCIP, RPP – Principal, The Planning Partnership, Toronto, ON