- John Baird
John Russell Baird, PC, MP (born May 26, 1969) is a Canadian politician. He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons for Ottawa West—Nepean in the 2006 federal election, and currently serves in the cabinet of Prime Minister Stephen Harper as Minister of the Environment. He is a member of the Conservative Party of Canada. Baird previously served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 2005, …
- Laurel Broten
Laurel C. Broten is a politician in Ontario, Canada. She is currently a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the riding of Etobicoke—Lakeshore for the Ontario Liberal Party. Prior to entering politics, she was a lawyer, community activist and volunteer. Broten attended McMaster University from 1986 to 1990, and has both a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Science degree from the institution.
- Karen Redman
Karen Redman, PC (born Karen Longo, January 8, 1953, in Kitchener, Ontario) is a Canadian politician. She has been a member of the Canadian House of Commons since 1997, representing the riding of Kitchener Centre for the Liberal Party. She served as Chief Government Whip in the 2004-05 Parliament, and is now the Chief Official Opposition Whip. After completing high school at Eastwood Collegiate, Redman went on to graduate from the University of Waterloo, …
- Christine Stewart
Christine Susan Stewart PC (born January 3 1941) is a Canadian politician. Stewart, a nurse by training, served in the Canadian House of Commons as the Liberal Member of Parliament for Northumberland for twelve years. She was first elected in the 1988 election, defeating her closest rival by a margin of 27 votes.
- Mark Warawa
Mark Warawa (born May 7, 1950) is a Canadian politician. Formerly a businessman and loss prevention officer as well as a city councillor in Abbotsford, British Columbia from 1990 to 2004. Warawa was first elected as a Conservative in the 2004 election in the newly created district of Langley. He was re-elected in the 2006 election. On February 10, 2006, Warawa was named parliamentary secretary to the Minister of the Environment.
- Charles Caccia
Charles L. Caccia, PC (born April 28, 1930 in Milan, Italy) is a Canadian politician. Caccia is a former Liberal member of the Canadian House of Commons. He represented the Toronto riding of Davenport between 1968 and 2004. A professor of forestry at the University of Toronto, Caccia is best known for his strong pro-environment views on the left of the Liberal party. He served at various times as Minister of Labour, Minister of the Environment, …
- Bryon Wilfert
Bryon J. Wilfert, PC, MP, BA, BEd, MA (born July 14, 1952 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian politician. He is a current member of the Canadian House of Commons, representing the riding of Richmond Hill for the Liberal Party. He was the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of the Environment until the defeat of the Martin government in the 2006 federal election. Wilfert has Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Education and Master of Arts degrees from the University of Toronto, …
- Børge Brende
Børge Brende is a Norwegian politician (Conservatives, Høyre). He was an active member of the Conservatives' youth party from an early age, and since 1997 he has been elected member of parliament representing Sør-Trøndelag county. From 2001 to 2004 he was Minister of the Environment, and then Minister of Trade and Industry until 2005. Brende is married and has two children.
- Jean-Louis Borloo
Jean-Louis Borloo is a French politician, and currently the French Minister of Ecology and Sustainable Development and Planning. Borloo began his career as a lawyer in the 1980s. He became president of the Valenciennes Football Club. In 1989, he was elected mayor of Valenciennes. On 21 July 2005 he married news anchorwoman Béatrice Schönberg at Rueil-Malmaison, Hauts-de-Seine. He is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement and, as of 2005, …
- Yuriko Koike
is a Japanese politician, who is currently serving as the Minister of Defense in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. She is a member of the House of Representatives of Japan for Tokyo's 10th district. She is originally known as an expert on the Middle East issues.
- Sergio Marchi
Sergio Marchi, PC (born May 12 1956) is a Canadian diplomat and former politician. Marchi was born in Argentina to an Italian family who subsequently immigrated to Canada. He worked as a businessman and urban planner. He entered politics when he was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1984 election as the Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) for the Toronto-area riding of York West. When the Liberals came to power in the 1993 election, …
- Nabiel Makarim
Nabiel Makarim (born November 9, 1945 in Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia) was Indonesia's State Minister of the Environment from 2001 to 2004. As minister, Makarim developed the Good Environmental Governance (GEG) program, which rates the environmental performance of cities and local environmental agencies. Makarim has spent most of his professional life in the environmental field, …
- John Wilkinson
John Wilkinson is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is currently a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the predominantly rural riding of Perth—Middlesex for the Liberal Party. Before entering public life, Wilkinson was a financial planner in Stratford. He is a certified financial planner and a founder of "Wilkinson & Keller Financial Planning Ltd", and is past president of the Perth-Huron chapter of Advocis, his professional association.
- Stefan Wallin
Stefan Erik Wallin in Vaasa is a Finland-Swedish politician. He is currently Finland's Minister for Culture and Sports in Matti Vanhanen's second cabinet. Wallin studied at the Åbo Akademi University in Turku, where he graduated with a Master's Degree in Social Sciences. He worked as a reporter for the newspaper "Vasabladet" 1989-1993, before acting as a research assistant for the Swedish People's Party.
- Siri Bjerke
Siri Bjerke (born June 19 1958 in Oslo, Norway) is a Norwegian (Labour Party). She was substitute member of the Norwegian legislature between 1997 and 2005. She was state secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs betwenn 1993 and 1997 and Minister of the Environment between 2000 and 2001 during Stoltenberg's first cabinet. After leaving politics she worked as a director for the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise (2002-2005) and for Innovation Norway (2005-).
- Dan Newman
Dan Newman (born January 16, 1963 in Toronto, Ontario) is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 2003, and was a cabinet minister in the governments of Mike Harris and Ernie Eves. Newman was educated at University College at the University of Toronto, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1987. From 1985 to 1995, he worked as manager of the Toronto Sun Publishing Corporation.
- John Roberts
John Moody Roberts, PC, BA, B.Phil, D.Phil (Born November 28, 1933 in Hamilton, Ontario - Died March 30, 2007) was a Canadian politician. Roberts was born in Hamilton, Ontario and grew up in Toronto. He was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in 1968 as a Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) for the riding of York-Simcoe. He was defeated in the 1972 federal election but returned in 1974.
- Serge Marcil
Serge Marcil, PC (born June 20 1944 in Valleyfield, Quebec) is an educator, administrator and politician in Quebec, Canada. After studying to be a teacher in Montreal, Marcel obtained work at various secondary schools as an administrator. He also served on his local city council in the early 1980s before entering the Quebec National Assembly as a Liberal Member of the National Assembly (MNA) in the 1985 Quebec provincial election in the riding of Beauharnois.
- James J. Bradley
The Honourable James J. Bradley (born February 19, 1945 in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada) is a long-time Ontario Liberal Party politician and Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. Before entering politics, Bradley was a teacher with the Lincoln County Board of Education. He was elected to St. Catharines' city council in 1970, but also remained in the classroom until 1977. After failed bids in the elections of 1967 and 1971, …
- Martin Bursík
Martin Bursík is a Czech politician and the current chairman of the Czech Green Party ("Strana zelených"). In the 1980s Bursík studied environmental engineering at the Charles University in Prague. In June 1989, he joined the dissident movement and signed the declaration of the anti-Communist movement. During the Velvet Revolution in November of that year, he was one of the founders of the Civic Forum (OF).
- Gary Mar
Gary G. Mar QC, LLB, BComm (born July 26, 1962) is a politician in the Canadian province of Alberta, currently serving as the Minister of International and Intergovernmental Affairs (Alberta) since April, 2006. Previously Mar was Minister of Health and Wellness, Minister of Learning, Minister of the Environment, and twice Minister of Community Development. He is the sitting Alberta Progressive Conservative Party MLA for Calgary Mackay.
- Serge Lepeltier
Serge Lepeltier is a French politician. He studied at École des Hautes Études Commerciales. He was mayor of Bourges in 1995 and again in 2001. He was elected senator of the Cher "département" on September 27, 1998. He won the municipal elections in Bourges in 1995 over the communist candidate. On March 31, 2004, Jean-Pierre Raffarin's government announced a reshuffle because of the massive losses in the French regional elections.
- Thorbjørn Berntsen
Thorbjørn Berntsen is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. He was Minister of Environmental Affairs 1990-1997.
- Gary Filmon
Gary Albert Filmon, PC, P.Eng.(Ret) (born August 24, 1942) is a Manitoba politician. He was the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba from 1983 to 2000, and served as Premier from 1988 to 1999.
- Pauline Browes
Pauline Browes, PC (born May 7 1938) is a Canadian Politician. An educator by training, Browes was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons as the Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament for Scarborough Centre in the 1984 federal election that brought Brian Mulroney to power. She served as parliamentary secretary to the Minister of the Environment from 1986 to 1989, …
- Pierre H. Vincent
Pierre H. Vincent, PC (born April 2, 1955 in Trois-Rivières, Quebec) is a tax lawyer and former Canadian politician. Vincent was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1984 electoral landslide that brought Brian Mulroney and the Progressive Conservative Party to power.
- Roger Simmons
Roger Simmons, PC (born June 3 1939) is a public policy consultant and former politician and diplomat in Canada. Simmons is originally from Newfoundland and Labrador where he was an active politician for many years. He is now based at the Vancouver, British Columbia office of the Gowlings law firm. Simmons was born in the town of Lewisporte. After studying at the Salvation Army College for Officers, the Memorial University of Newfoundland, and Boston University, …
- Suzanne Blais-Grenier
Suzanne Blais-Grenier, PC, MA, Ph.D is a former Canadian politician. Blais-Grenier was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1984 federal election that brought Brian Mulroney to power. She represented the riding of Rosemont, Quebec. She was appointed to the Cabinet as Prime Minister Mulroney's first Minister of the Environment. She faced mounting criticism from environmentalists following cuts to various programs, …
- Keith Norton
Keith Calder Norton (born January 26, 1941 in Claremont, Ontario) is a former Canadian politician and public servant. He served as a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1975 to 1985, and was until 2005 the chief commissioner of the Ontario Human Rights Commission. Norton was educated at Queen's University in Kingston, and worked as a lawyer after his graduation. He was elected as an alderman in Kingston in 1972, …
- Michael Russell
Michael Russell (Mike Russell) (born 9 August 1953 in Bromley, Kent) is a Member of the Scottish Parliament for the South of Scotland region. He was previously an MSP from 1999 until his defeat in the 2003 Scottish Parliament Election. Russell was re-elected in May 2007 and was appointed Minister for Environment in Scotland's first-ever SNP administration by First Minister Alex Salmond.
- Glen Cummings
James Glen Cummings (born April 12, 1944) is a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1986 to 2007, and was as a cabinet minister in the government of Gary Filmon. Cummings was born in Neepawa, Manitoba, and was educated at Neepawa Area College. Before entering provincial politics, he was a school board chair and trustee in the Beautiful Plains School Division, and worked as a farmer.
- Ilan Shalgi
Ilan Shalgi (born July 13, 1945) is an Israeli politician and was a member of the 16th Knesset term. Shalgi is a former Israel Defense Forces lieutenant-colonel and holds a L.L.M from Tel Aviv University. During 2004, Shalgi had served as the minister of science and technology and subsequently as Minister of the Environment until he was fired from the government by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon with the rest of the Shinui party due to disputes over the 2005 budget.
- Leonard Marchand
Leonard Stephen Marchand, PC, CM (born November 16 1933) is a former Canadian politician. He was the first person of First Nations ethnicity to serve in the federal cabinet, and was the first Status Indian to serve as a Member of Parliament. Marchand was born in Vernon, British Columbia as a member of the Okanagan Indian Band. An agronomist by training, he left his profession in the mid-1960s to work with the North American Indian Brotherhood.
- Andy Brandt
Andrew S. (Andy) Brandt (born June 11, 1938 in London, Ontario) is a former politician and public administrator in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Progressive Conservative from 1981 to 1990, and was a cabinet minister in the governments of Bill Davis and Frank Miller. He later served as interim leader of the Progressive Conservative Party from 1987 to 1990. Brandt was educated at the University of Waterloo, …
- Kristin Hille Valla
Kristin Hille Valla (b. 1944) is a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party and was the Norwegian Minister of Environmental Affairs 1989-1990.
- Gene Devereux
Gene Devereux is a politician in the province of New Brunswick, Canada. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick in 1995 and defeated in a bid for re-election in 1999. He represented the electoral district of Moncton North and served minister of the environment. He is currently the Liberal candidate for Moncton West in the 2006 election.
- Thomas Michael McMillan
Thomas Michael "Tom" McMillan, PC, BA, MA (born October 15 1945) in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada is a Canadian political scientist and former politician. McMillan was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1979 general election as the Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament for Hillsborough, Prince Edward Island. He was re-elected in the 1980 and 1984 elections.
- Arturo Lafalla
Arturo Lafalla (San Rafael, 1944) is an argentinian politician of the Justicialist Party. He was governor of the Mendoza Province in 1995 until 1999. Previously, it had been the minister of the environment in the province. Lafalla was national deputy from 1999 to 2003.
- Edward Connery
Edward Connery (born July 13, 1933 in St. Boniface, Manitoba) is a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1986 to 1992, and a cabinet minister in the Progressive Conservative government of Gary Filmon from 1988 to 1991. Connery was educated at Glenlawn Collegiate in St. Vital, Manitoba, and later worked as a market gardener. He was chair of the "Root Crop Marketing Board" from 1972 to 1981, …
- Gerard Lecuyer
Gerard Lecuyer is a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1981 to 1988, and a cabinet minister in the New Democratic Party government of Howard Pawley from 1983 to 1988. Lecuyer was educated at the University of Manitoba, and worked as an educator-administrator before entering public life. He directed special projects in the Bureau de l'Éducation français for the Department of Education, and was a teacher in the St.