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Published in Spring 2001
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CEC Secretariat welcomes two new staff members
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Geoffrey Garver
joined CEC in December 2000 as Director of the Submissions on Enforcement Matters (SEM) Unit. Previously, Geoff spent nine of the past eleven years with the US Justice Department's Environment and Natural Resources Division as a trial attorney and then as Acting Assistant Chief, where he handled cases concerning land and natural resource management, water rights and environmental impact assessment. Among his major cases were suits dealing with Everglades water quality, winter use and bison management in Yellowstone National Park, and water rights in Idaho and Oregon. From 1993 to 1995, Geoff was special assistant and Senior Policy Counsel to the Assistant Administrator for the Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). While with EPA, he directed the process for revising its environmental auditing policy. Before joining the US Justice Department in 1989, he was a judicial clerk for the Hon. Conrad Cyr in the US District Court in Maine. Geoff received his B.S. in chemical engineering from Cornell University in 1982 and a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1987.
Victor Shantora joined CEC in February 2001 as head of its Pollutants and Health program area. He had been with Environment Canada for the past 26 years where he held senior policy and technical positions in a variety of sectors. Since 1985, he had been Director General of the Toxics Pollution Prevention Directorate, where he oversaw the development of policies and programs to eliminate persistent toxic substances. Prior to that, he was Regional Director General of the Ontario Region where he launched the Great Lakes Action Plan to address persistent toxic substances. Vic has also been active in the international arena, as Canadian co-chair of the Water Quality Board of the International Joint Commission, overseeing the implementation of the Canada-US Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, and as Chair of the OECD's Working Party on Pollution Prevention and Control. Vic has a master's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Waterloo.
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