Appendix E

Experts Consulted

Key Names
A large number of experts conversant with international trade development were consulted, across Western Canada and in Ottawa. In the following list, the names of those with whom face-to-face meetings are marked with an asterisk. Names are grouped when a joint meeting was held. Other substantive consultations were held by telephone and names are provided in normal font. Other interlocutors with whom brief telephone conversations were held are not listed. The input of the listed experts was of great value to this research study.

WD Steering Committee

• Dayna Boutang*
• Harold Deck*
• Tyson Purcha*
• Karla Radomsky*

WD Regions

• Brent Depape*
• Mark Nicholson*
• Tom Kerkhoven
• Kraig Short*

Municipal

• Greg Dandewich*, Economic Development Director, Destination Winnipeg Inc.
• Kent McMullin, Economic Development Edmonton
• Denean Tomlin, Calgary Economic Development

Provincial

• Alberto Velasco*, International Business Development, Mexico & Chile, Manitoba Competitiveness, Training and Trade
• Jennifer Evancio*, Director, Saskatchewan Trade and Export Partnership
• Rob Ziola*, Director, Saskatchewan Trade and Export Partnership
• Benigno Rojas-Moreno*, Senior Trade Officer, Energy, Fabricio Lima*, Timothy Beals*, Alberta IIAR
• Heli Carswell*, Senior Trade Director, Advanced Industries, AB Economic Development
• Rockford Lang*, Trade Director, AB IIAR
• Mike Carter*, ADM, and Laurence Lemay*, Marketing, Investment and Trade, B.C. Ministry of Economic Development

DFAIT Regional

• Suzanne Cormie*, Senior Trade Commissioner, Manitoba
• Mona Taylor*, Senior Trade Commissioner, Saskatchewan
• Michael Wilmot*, Trade Commissioner, Alberta
• Wayne Robson*, Director and Senior Trade Commissioner, B.C.
• Reid Henry*, Director and Senior Trade Commissioner, Prairies

DFAIT Ottawa

• Alex Bugailiskis*, ADM, Secretariat for the Americas Strategy, DFAIT (brief meeting)
• Pat Langan-Torell*, Director, Latin America and the Caribbean Commercial Relations, DFAIT
• Roman Hruby*, Donald Mackay*, Secretariat for the Americas Strategy, DFAIT
• Rene Wassill*, Deputy Director, Science and Technology Division, DFAIT
• Richard Cameron*, Senior Research Coordinator, David Boileau*, Office of the Chief Economist, DFAIT

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Other Federal Departments

• Susan McCoy*, DG, Americas Branch, CIDA
• Emilee Pedruchny*, Director, Sector Intelligence and Analysis, Industry Canada
• Melanie Cullins*, Director, International Relations Office, NRC
• Federico Burone, Regional Director Latin America, IDRC, Montevideo, Uruguay
• Karine Morin*, Senior Advisor, Earth Sciences Sector, NRCan
• Robert Jones*, Director, Industry and Trade, Canadian Forest Service, NRCan
• Kim Stirling*, Minerals, Metals and Materials Policy Branch, NRCan
• Drew Leyburne*, Geoff Murphy*, Michael Wiggin*, CANMET, NRCan
• Mike Ellerbeck*, Project Leader, NRCan, Vancouver
• Peter Cameron*, Director, International Finance and Development Division, Finance Canada
• Bruce Mitchell*, Chief, Environmental Statistcs, Statistics Canada
• Sonia Vieira*, International Market Development Officer, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa
• Michele Kuxhaus*, Senior Marketing and Trade Officer, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Saskatoon
• Doug Kinsey*, Deputy Executive Director, Industry Canada, B.C.

Innovation Clusters

• Curtis Rempel*, Research Development Manager, Richardson Centre for Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals
• Vic Gerden*, Manitoba Aerospace
• Paul Wiebe, Director, Business Development, NRC Institute for Biodiagnostics
• Malcolm Wilson*, Director, Office of Energy and Environment, University of Regina
• Richard Belzil*, Ivan Sierralta*, Calgary Technologies Inc. (Wireless)
• David Antoniuk*, Director, Business Development, TRLabs
• Yoga Yogendran*, Director, Technology Deployment and Commercialization, NRC Institute for Fuel Cell Innovation
• Tim Walzak* and Chris Edley*, Camosun College (Ocean Industries)
• Gabe Kalmar*, Executive Director, Operations, Genome BC
• (plus several telephone contacts noted in the text of this report)

Private Sector (terms of reference called for private sector consultations to be held to a minimum)

• Paul Drager, Partner, Macleod Dixon
• Bob Blackburn*, Sr VP, SNC Lavalin (brief meeting)
• Jim Fernandez*, President and CEO, FY International
• David Fissel*, President, ASL Environmental Sciences Inc.
• Harry Weiler*, AXYS Technologies
• Mark Mensing*, CEO, Canada Export Centre

Academia

• Ian Bailey*, Director, Industry Liaison Office, University of Regina
• Bob Schad*, A/Director, Office of International Cooperation and Development, University of Regina
• David Harvey*, Director, Business Development, Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology
• Barry Carin, Centre for Global Studies, University of Victoria
• Elizabeth Montes Garces, University of Calgary

Export Development Canada/Northstar Trade Finance/Canadian Commercial Corporation

• Robert Forbes*, Group Vice President, International Business Development, Johane Seguin*, Geoff Stone*, Veronica Lares*, Nadia Avila Lopez*, Export Development Canada
• Linda Niro*, Western Region VP, EDC
• Scott Shepherd*, President & CEO and Miguel Lutz*, Northstar Trade Finance
• Tom DeWolf*, Director Business Development, Norm Weir*, Canadian Commercial Corporation

Associations

• Eric Kirschner*, Director, Marketing, Canadian Council of the Americas BC
• Andre Nudelman, Chairman, Canadian Council of the Americas BC
• Werner Knittel*, BC VP, CME
• Brian McCready*, AB VP, CME

Other

• Fabiola Galaz*, Representative CORFO Canada, Invest Chile
• Marlene Roy*, Information Resources Coordinator. International Institute for Sustainable Development
• Vinita Watson, Canadian Executive Director, Inter-American Development Bank
• Abraham Fox*, Structured and Corporate Finance, Inter-American Development Bank

Seminars Attended
The consultant's outreach included attendance at Canadian Council of the Americas seminars in Vancouver and Calgary and participation in a U.S. Department of Commerce webinar on the Inter-American Development Bank. A Manitoba Trade seminar on "Chile: key mining partner in Latin America" was also attended.

Subcontractors: The two subcontractors also held outreach meetings, in particular with senior DFAIT staff.