CACOR Board of Directors 2026-2027
Andrew Welch, Chair
Andrew Welch is a speaker, researcher, and writer on the philosophical basis of human value systems and ecological economics. His first book, The Value Crisis, was published in 2014, with a sequel, Our Second Chance, published in 2022. His mission is to provide unique insights to global issues by combining heuristics and observations from multiple disciplines, and to communicate historical solutions using engaging narratives that are accessible to a wide general audience (like this animated video!) He currently sits on the Advisory Board of the Merz Institute.
Andrew’s background is powerfully diverse, beginning with Hons. Math/Computer Science and Theatre at the University of Waterloo, where he is now a Guest Lecturer in the Faculty of Environment. For the past 20 years, he has been in demand as a skilled corporate facilitator, guiding intact teams through difficult challenges and transitions. In 2008, he created the WattPlot™ suite of software which monitors renewable energy systems at over a thousand sites worldwide. Andrew is a former Emergency Response Team Site Manager with the Canadian Red Cross, and a founding member of their National Disaster Management Evaluation Team. He also co-founded Transition Erin – a Transition Town movement in Erin, Ontario.
Ted Manning, Past Chair
Dr. Ted Manning is President of Tourisk Inc., an international consulting firm based in Ottawa and providing integrated planning for heritage sites and tourism destinations, development of measures of sustainability, and accessibility and environmental management solutions worldwide.
His website is www.tourisk.com,
Dr. Manning has worked in more than 50 countries in the creation and implementation of improved methods for planning environmentally and culturally sensitive areas and reduction of the ecological and social footprint of human activities, particularly regarding tourism for the UN World Tourism Organization, World Wildlife Fund, and the UN Industrial Development Organization for its coastal development program in Africa. He has served as Executive Manager of Sustainable Tourism for Tourism Canada, Director of Sustainable Development for Canada’s Government Consulting Company, and Associate Director of Sustainable Development and Chief of Land Use Policy and Planning for Environment Canada. He has published 25 books and over 100 articles on sustainable development, tourism, wellbeing. and environmental management topics. He has also served as President of the Canadian Association of Geographers, a director of the Social Science Federation of Canada, and as Adjunct Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies at Carleton University. He is currently a full member of the International Club of Rome.
Madeleine Aubrey, Vice-Chair
During her long career in arts education, Madeleine has been a visual arts specialist, an arts consultant and an education officer with the Ministry of Education of the province of Ontario, in charge of policy and programs at the elementary and secondary levels. She was a rapporteur for arts education consultations across Canada for the Canadian Commission for UNESCO and served as an art consultant for several television art activity series for TFO. In her work for the Ministry of Education she was responsible for policy, curriculum development, assessment, and the implementation of arts education at the elementary and secondary levels through in-service training workshops.
She is the founding president of l’Association francophone pour l’éducation artistique en Ontario (AFEAO) (1990), an association which represents Franco-Ontarian teachers, in drama, dance, visual arts, and music. She has had numerous leadership roles: organizing conference; serving on several Boards; chair or co-chairing symposiums and round tables; has been past chair of CACOR; is presently chair of CACOR’s Women’s Issues and Perspectives Committee; and over the past seven years, is a director in charge of membership, on the Board of Friends of the National Arts Centre Orchestra (FNACO). She has been a member of CACOR for 27 years.
Madeleine holds three university degrees, B.A.(Hons) in Visual Arts, B.Sc. in Recreology, a Master’s degree in Administration and Curriculum. She also holds other Ontario certificates in the arts (Specialization in Visual Arts) and in administration (School Principal Qualifications and Supervisory Officer Qualifications).
David Head, Treasurer
Dave obtained a PhD in chemistry at University of British Columbia. He spent 24 years as a federal civil servant working in a number of departments and agencies, including Atomic Energy of Canada, Indian and Northern Affairs, the National Research Council, and Industry Canada, reaching the level of Director General. Thereafter, in British Columbia he ran an industry agency that took back waste solvents, pesticides and gasoline. After a second retirement he managed a social agency in Penticton BC that supported people with a brain injury. Dave has had an extensive volunteer career, serving on more than a dozen boards of directors for organizations in Ottawa and BC with a wide variety of goals, from a Young Offender group home to a 12 bed hospice. Presently, he is a member of the board of directors for a child care organization in Ottawa.
Raymond Leury, Secretary
Raymond Leury built a career in the field of information technology, working across both the public and private sectors. His academic background includes a Bachelor of Commerce degree with a specialization in computer sciences, as well as a Master of Business Administration from the University of Ottawa.
Thirteen years ago, Raymond purchased his first electric vehicle (EV), which marked the beginning of his active involvement in promoting EVs as a key solution to reducing GHGs. He soon joined other EV enthusiasts and began advocating for broader adoption of electric vehicles in the community.
Raymond now serves as president of the Electric Vehicle Council of Ottawa (EVCO). As President of EVCO, working with his team he has spearheaded a number of initiatives including the successful campaign to get OC Transpo to transition to a fully electric bus fleet.
In retirement, he dedicates much of his time to researching and advocating for electric vehicles and climate change solutions, continuing his lifelong passion for environmental stewardship and technological innovation.
Richard van der Jagt, Director
Dr. Richard van der Jagt has had a long standing interest in links between exposures to environmental toxins and disease. He founded and chaired the Canadian Leukemia Studies Group, completing Canada’s largest ever acute leukemia treatment study, and contributed to development of novel therapies for other environmentally-linked malignancies, lymphoma, and myeloma. He has supported and been involved in research into the link between exposures to pesticides and adverse health outcomes and lent his voice to strengthening Bill S-5, amending the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA).
Art Hunter, Director
Art Hunter designs, operates and is constantly modernizing the Manotick Microgrid for the social and financial benefits explained in the presentation material. Survival and mitigation of consumption overshoot, and the climate catastrophe are top priorities. The Manotick Microgrid consists of rooftop solar arrays, home battery storage, a ground source heat pump, two electric Vehicles and a comprehensive command and control system for measurement and data processing driving appropriate actuators.
He has extensive experience in conducting research within universities, working with many companies as a consultant and as a researcher at the National Research Council of Canada including being the Canadian project manager for NASA’s Space Shuttle’s Canadarm.
He holds degrees from the Royal Military College (Hon B.Eng.) and from the University of London, Imperial College (Ph.D. hypersonic aerodynamics). He is very active in the Canadian Association for the Club of Rome.
Geoff Strong, Director
Meg Sears, Director
David Hutton, Director
David Hutton is an advocate for whistleblower protection as a means of safeguarding the public interest and the integrity of our institutions. He has played a leading role in this field for more than 20 years, continues to do so, and in 2022 received the Canadian Integrity Award for this work.
In 2013 he became increasingly concerned about our climate crisis and the inadequacy of the political response and joined CACOR, in part to alert CACOR members to the critical role that whistleblowers play in exposing hidden information regarding climate change and in combatting the fossil fuel industry’s ongoing efforts to confuse the public and decision-makers.
David has written and spoken widely about whistleblowing, published analyses of Canadian whistleblowing laws and their implementation, testified to parliamentary committees, and created original guidance material for whistleblowers. He is a Senior Fellow with the Centre for Free Expression at the Toronto Metropolitan University, and is one of the founders and a Trustee of the Whistleblowing International Network, a charity that supports whistleblowing NGOs around the world. He served for almost a decade as Chair of the Board and Executive Director of the Federal Accountability Initiative for Reform, a Canadian charity devoted to whistleblower protection.
In his earlier career David was a published author and consultant, recognized as an expert in management systems and organizational change. He served as a senior executive in industry, led a successful management consulting practice for 20 years, serving an international clientele, and wrote two authoritative books on quality management that have been translated, published and distributed on four continents.
Ken Johnson, Director
