Linda Nowlan
As a public interest environmental lawyer with two decades of experience, Linda brings a wealth of experience to WWF-Canada as the Director of Pacific Conservation. She is a former Executive Director of West Coast Environmental Law, and has also worked at the UBC Program on Water Governance and as a litigation lawyer. She’s been lucky to fulfill two dream job fantasies already: working as a summer intern at the UN Environment Programme in Nairobi, Kenya, and taking on a year long assignment in London as a diplomat in with the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 2002.
Linda is currently a member of the Board of the Fraser Basin Council, the Mayor of Vancouver’s Greenest City Action Team, and a Nature Conservancy of Canada expert advisory committee. Her publications include numerous reports on Canadian water and biodiversity law, and a plain-language guide to international environmental treaties. The IUCN, the world’s largest environmental organization, selected her to write a guide to the Arctic Environmental Legal Regime, published in 2002. She contributed a chapter to the UBC Press bestseller Eau Canada- The Future of Canada’s Water in 2007 and has recently written on environmental flow protection.
She received an undergraduate degree in English Literature from Stanford University, and graduate degrees in law and international law and diplomacy from the University of Toronto and Tufts University. She is a member of the Bar of the Province of British Columbia and the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law, and is a Fellow of LEAD International. Born in Vancouver, Linda enjoys ocean sports like kayaking, windsurfing, snorkelling and swimming - even in the cold waters of English Bay and Howe Sound.
Linda is currently a member of the Board of the Fraser Basin Council, the Mayor of Vancouver’s Greenest City Action Team, and a Nature Conservancy of Canada expert advisory committee. Her publications include numerous reports on Canadian water and biodiversity law, and a plain-language guide to international environmental treaties. The IUCN, the world’s largest environmental organization, selected her to write a guide to the Arctic Environmental Legal Regime, published in 2002. She contributed a chapter to the UBC Press bestseller Eau Canada- The Future of Canada’s Water in 2007 and has recently written on environmental flow protection.
She received an undergraduate degree in English Literature from Stanford University, and graduate degrees in law and international law and diplomacy from the University of Toronto and Tufts University. She is a member of the Bar of the Province of British Columbia and the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law, and is a Fellow of LEAD International. Born in Vancouver, Linda enjoys ocean sports like kayaking, windsurfing, snorkelling and swimming - even in the cold waters of English Bay and Howe Sound.
