After many years of service as a member of Nature Canada’s Board of Directors, Mark Dorfman has stepped down from his leadership role with the organization.

Mark Dorfman was a professional planner in municipal government for 15 years before establishing his own practice in 1981. He is a planner for several private land developers and builders, and an advisor to Ontario municipalities and several community-based organizations in both urban and rural settings. Mark is an Ontario registered professional planner, a fellow of the Canadian Institute of Planners, and a member of the American Planning Association. He served as national president of the Canadian Institute of Planners from 1974 to 1976 and as chair of the Region of Waterloo Environmental and Ecological Advisory Committee from 1988 to 1991. Mark received his Master of Science degree in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Toronto. He has been an adjunct professor in the School of Planning at the University of Waterloo for many years. Mark was president of the Federation of Ontario Naturalists from 2000 to 2002 and served as president of the Ontario Society for Environmental Management. Currently he is a member of Waterloo Region’s Water Efficiency Advisory Committee.

Nature Canada would like to thank Mark Dorfman for his insight and leadership during his time as a member of Nature Canada’s Board of Directors. We wish him the very best in his future endeavours.

For more information on Nature Canada’s current Board of Directors, see our Board of Directors page here.