Jane McDonald
Board Member, IISD Experimental Lakes Area
Jane McDonald is a board member of IISD Experimental Lakes Area. She is also the Vice President of Climate and Nature Solutions.
Jane has over 20 years of Canadian and International experience working with governments, corporate executives, and major think tanks to advance sustainability. She has worked in the financial sector, building new environmental markets at investment bank Cantor Fitzgerald, and led advocacy efforts to secure the inclusion of Canadian renewable electricity in US clean power programs.
From 2015-2016, Jane served as Policy Director for the Canadian Minister of Environment and Climate Change where she supported the Canadian government’s role in the Paris Agreement, and negotiations with provinces on the ‘Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change’. In 2018 she joined a diverse group of stakeholders on Canada’s Generation Energy Council, producing the first energy vision for Canada consistent with the country’s climate goals.
Jane is currently a Director of The Transition Accelerator, a Canadian organization advancing practical pathways for decarbonization and economic competitiveness, and advisor to Business Future Pathways, working on transition planning guidance and Canada’s transition taxonomy.
Internationally, she is an advisor to the Task Force on Net Zero Policy and a delegate to the Net-Zero Data Public Utility, the world’s first global repository for private sector climate transition-related data freely accessible to all.