Jeff MacDonald
Director General, Climate Change Adaptation at Environment and Climate Change Canada
Jeff MacDonald is the Director General, Climate Change Adaptation at Environment and Climate Change Canada. His team developed Canada’s first National Adaptation Strategy, the Government of Canada Adaptation Action Plan and operates the Canadian Centre for Climate Services.
Jeff has held several executive positions for over 20 years at four federal departments and agencies. He is a skilled negotiator with international, intergovernmental and indigenous experience. Among his other notable work experiences are: the organization of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (CoP11): Montreal 2005; the renegotiation of the Convention on Cooperation in Northwest Atlantic Fisheries (NAFO); amendments to the Fisheries Act and the Oceans Act; and the successful achievement Canada’s marine conservation target of protecting 10% of Canada’s oceans by 2020.
Jeff has a Master of Science degree (Rural Planning and Development) from the University of Guelph and a Bachelor of Arts (Political Science) from St. Francis Xavier University. He lives in Chelsea, Quebec.
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