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THE FUTURE OF THE OLYMPIC MOVEMENT IN CANADA

When: Where: P.A. Woodward Instructional Resources Centre, UBC’s Point Grey Campus, 2194 Health Sciences Mall, Vancouver.

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OTTAWA, ON – DECEMBER 03: Christine Girard receive her Olympic gold and bronze medals from London 2012 and Beijing 2008, at the National Art Centre in Ottawa, ON (Photo by Vincent Ethier/COC)

Tricia Smith, O.C., O.B.C. — President of the Canadian Olympic Committee

Four-time Olympian and Olympic rowing silver medalist, Ms. Smith has been the president of the Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) since 2015 and was elected as a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in 2016. A practicing lawyer and UBC alumna, Ms. Smith is also a member of the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame and the BC Sports Hall of Fame. She received the Carol Anne Letheren Award (2006) for International Sport Leadership.  She was recognized among WXN’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women in Canada (2018), and selected among the most influential women in sport by the Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women in Society.  In 2017 she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Rowing Aviron Canada.

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BACK TO THE FUTURE: REVISITING THE CLIMATE CHANGE CRISIS A DECADE LATER

Dr. Andrew Weaver, O.B.C., has served on numerous national and international committees, including being a Lead Author in the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Dr. Weaver is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, the American Geophysical Union, the American Meteorological Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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