Professor and Jeff Boyce Research Chair at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology
Chief Safety and Risk Officer, Province of Ontario
Advisor and Fellow, Urban Development, Sustainable Development Network at The World Bank
Dan Hoornweg was a lead urban specialist in the World Bank’s central Urban Advisory Unit prior to moving back to Ontario in 2012. While at the World Bank, during almost twenty years, Dan worked with more than 400 cities in all of the Bank’s six geographic regions.
Dan was lead author on Canada’s first municipal Green Plan and started the first local government round table on sustainable development (City of Guelph). Dan also started Canada’s first retail store for environmentally friendlier products (For Earth’s Sake opened 1987). Dan’s academic background includes degrees in Earth Sciences, Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Dan’s research areas include energy systems, natural gas as a transportation fuel, sustainable cities, risk identification and management, urban resilience, and waste management. Work in solid waste began with the launch of the City of Guelph’s wet/dry program in 1987, and more recently authoring in 2012 the World Bank’s ‘What a Waste’ report that provides a comprehensive estimate of global waste generation. Dan is on the Board of Directors of Waste Diversion Ontario.
Dan continues to serve as a Director for the Global City Indicators Facility at the University of Toronto. He is a member of the Urban Strategy Council of GDF Suez and of the Philips Liveable Cities Think. He assumed the Jeffrey Boyce Research Chair at UOIT on October 2012.
