Frances Westley
Frances Westley became director of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies in January 2005. Before that, she was James McGill Chair of Strategy, executive director of the McGill-McConnell Program for Voluntary Sector Leaders, and professor of strategy in the Faculty of Management at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, where she helped develop McGill's School for the Environment. She has also served on many boards of science-based environmental organizations including the IUCN-The World Conservation Union (formerly the International Union for the Conservation of Nature) Conservation Breeding Specialist Group, the Science Board of the Resilience Alliance, the Bedford Institutes Centre for Marine Biology, the Canadian Biodiversity Institute and Evergreen.