UPDATE: Expert Taskforce on Natural Capital Accounting and Nature Financing Members’ Biographies

Expert Taskforce on Natural Capital Accounting and Nature Financing Members’ Biographies

W.L. (Vic) Adamowicz
Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sciences
University of Alberta

Distinguished University Professor Emeritus in the Department of Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology, Faculty of Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sciences, former Canada Research Chair (Tier 1), and Special Advisor, Faculty Relations, Office of the Provost and Vice-President (Academic), at the University of Alberta. His research has focused on the economic valuation of environmental amenities and ecosystem services and the incorporation of environmental values into economic analysis, with applications to outdoor recreation, health, water quality, air quality, endangered species, forests, and agriculture. His research also involves the analysis of economic choice behaviour with applications to food demand, recreation, and environmental quality.

Mr. Adamowicz is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Academy II – Social Sciences, awarded in 2007. He became a Fellow of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association in 2025, a Fellow of the Canadian Environmental and Resource Economics Association in 2024, a Fellow of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists in 2019, and a Fellow of the Canadian Agricultural Economics Society in 2011.

Mr. Adamowicz has extensive leadership experience as an academic administrator, including as a vice-dean for 10 years at the University of Alberta and a member of several senior leadership committees. He also has experience in research leadership, including having been the scientific director of a national interdisciplinary forestry research network.

Hari Balasubramanian
Founding Managing Partner, EcoAdvisors
Board Member, Nature United