Rick Findlay

Vice-Chair
Board of Directors
Canadian Water Network
Moderator: Water is Our Future

Rick Findlay retired after almost a decade as Director of the Water Programme of Pollution Probe, in July 2008. Rick found "retirement" is an evolving concept, however and he is presently Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Water Network, a Canadian Network Centre of Excellence while he is also working as a part-time consultant, working mainly on Great Lakes and water-related projects.

Prior to joining Pollution Probe Rick served for six years as Chief of the Climate Change team with Environment Canada.  His position previous to that was Director of the Ontario Round Table on Environment and Economy.

During Rick's first assignment at Environment Canada he was responsible for the project that created the widely replicated Blue Box recycling program and for activities in Canada concerning toxic pollution of the Niagara River in the 1980's.

Rick has a Bachelors of Applied Science degree (Chemical Engineering) from Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario, Canada.