Board of Directors
Jeffrey Qi
Jeffrey is a public policy and global environmental diplomacy expert. He has worked on various areas related to sustainable development, including on climate change, biodiversity conservation, and global health. He has represented environmental non-governmental organizations in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations since 2017. Jeffrey has also participated in the Paris Agreement Work Programme negotiations on common timeframes, the Global Stocktake, and the transparency framework.
In Canada, he worked on sustainable development policy research and advocacy and has experience engaging with all levels of government. Jeffrey is currently a policy advisor with the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD).
Jeffrey was previously the Coordinator of Climate Multilateral Affairs with BCCIC’s youth-led climate change branch and was one of the co-lead of the BCCIC Youth Delegation to UN Climate Change. He was responsible for the overall management and strategic leadership of BCCIC’s youth programming on climate change policy research and advocacy.
He has also contributed to multiple BCCIC publications, including the 2019 civil society shadow voluntary national review report “Where Canada Stands Vol. III – A Sustainable Development Goals Progress Report”. Jeffrey earned both his Bachelor of Arts in political science and environmental studies and Master of Arts in political science (international relations) from the University of British Columbia.