WYNET SMITH

Executive Director, Global Forest Watch Canada
Ontario, Canada
Wynet has more than 20 years of international experience in natural resources policy, planning and management. She is currently Executive Director of Global Forest Watch Canada. Her positions have included being: the Director of Integrated Planning for the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement; the Coordinator and Natural Resources Expert of the UN Security Council’s Panel of Experts on Liberia; and a lecturer at St Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge. She has also worked at the World Resources Institute, as well as for co-management and Aboriginal organisations in northern Canada. Wynet has a PhD in Geography from the University of Cambridge, a MSc in Geography from McGill University, and a BA from Concordia University.