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Biography

Seth Klein is the Team Lead and Director of Strategy for the (a five-year project of the David Suzuki Institute). Prior to that, for 22 years (1996-2018), he served as the founding British Columbia Director of the , a public policy research institute committed to social, economic and environmental justice. He is now a founder and board member of the . He is a freelance researcher, writer, policy consultant and speaker, and an adjunct professor with 大象传媒鈥檚 Urban Studies program.

Seth鈥檚 book 鈥�  鈥� was released in September 2020.

Seth is a founder and served for eight years as co-chair of the BC Poverty Reduction Coalition, a network of over 50 community organizations in BC campaigning for a comprehensive poverty reduction plan in BC. He is a founder and served for ten years on the advisory committee of the Metro Vancouver Living Wage for Families campaign (and was co-creator of the methodology for calculating the living family wage, now used in about three dozen Canadian communities). He has served on the board of Dogwood. He is an advisory board member for the Columbia Institute鈥檚 Centre for Civic Governance. And for 12 years he served as a founder, advisor and instructor for Next Up, a leadership program for young people committed to social and environmental justice.

Seth鈥檚 research deals primarily with climate policy and climate justice, fiscal policy, taxation, welfare policy, poverty, inequality, economic security, and job creation. His research reports can be found on the ; and his policy commentary can be found on the . Seth also writes a regular .

A social activist for over 40 years, Seth lives in East Vancouver with his partner and two children. Seth has been listed by Vancouver Magazine as one of the 50 most powerful people in the city, and by Homemakers Magazine among the 鈥�60 men we love.鈥� He does not know how he ended up on either list, but he humbly accepts the latter.

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