Peter A. Victor

Peter A. Victor is a Professor Emeritus at York University. He received his Ph.D. in economics from UBC in 1971 and has worked for over 50 years in Canada and abroad on economy and environment as an academic, consultant and public servant. His work on ecological economics has been recognised through the award of the Molson Prize in the Social Sciences by the Canada Council for the Arts in 2011, the Boulding Memorial Prize from the International Society for Ecological Economics in 2014, and election to the Royal Society of Canada in 2015.

Peter was the founding president of the Canadian Society of Ecological Economics and is a past-president of the Royal Canadian Institute for Science. Prior to becoming Dean of the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University in 1996 he was Assistant Deputy Minister for the Environmental Science and Standards Division in the Ontario Ministry of the Environment. Currently Peter is a member of the Honorary Board of the David Suzuki Foundation, the Chair of the Science Advisory Committee of the Footprint Data Foundation and has served on many advisory boards in the public and private sectors.

Peter maintains an active research program as a co-investigator in the Centre for Understanding Sustainable Prosperity and through the Ecological Footprint Initiative at York University. His latest book, Escape from Overshoot: The Economics of a Planet in Peril, was published in early 2023.