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Jeff Beyer


Title and Organization:		Strategy Analyst, The Carbon Trust
Gender and Age:		Male, 29
Location:		London, London, City of
Country of Residence:		United Kingdom
Country of Birth:		Canada
Nationalities:		Canadian
Citizenships:		Canada
Languages:		English



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About Me

Jeff Beyer is a strategy analyst at the Carbon Trust. He received his MSc Environmental Change & Management from the University of Oxford in 2011.

Prior to moving to the UK, he worked as a policy and research analyst at the Ottawa-based environmental consulting firm The Delphi Group. He graduated with a combined honours in economics and psychology from Carleton University in 2008.

He is a member of the Climate Project Canada, and was trained by Al Gore to deliver his climate presentation. He has been actively involved with the international development organization Engineers Without Borders (EWB) and the summer of 2006 volunteering with the Ministry of Food and Agriculture in the rural north of Ghana. He was the co-president of the Carleton chapter of EWB and, among other things, helped facilitate international development presentations to over 3500 Ottawa-area high school students.
Jeff’s 2007 summer was terrifically busy! He was recognized with the first place Presidential Scholarship as an outstanding delegate at the ATHGO International United Nations Youth Forum on Climate Change and will present the youth resolution in Yerevan, Armenia in 2008. He initiated a two-month speaking tour in Southern Ontario high schools and Rotary Clubs. The goals of the tour were to connect our actions in Canada to impacts overseas, humanize development, and empower students and business people to make international change from their own communities. He reached over 1200 students, hundreds of Rotarians, and forwarded hundreds of students’ postcards to Prime Minister Harper that explained why the students felt human development was so important.

He attended a World Bank youth forum and helped found the World Bank's North American Youth Development and Peace Network. Additionally, Jeff was invited to Suzanne Mubarak’s International Youth for Peace conference in Egypt where he made connections with youth from around the world. He also worked for Carleton University’s Shad Valley program, a four-week summer enrichment program for high-potential high school students.
He is bringing all these experiences to his local community and is multiplying the learning and energy from these events by chairing an upcoming Global Citizenship Conference at Carleton for local youth in March, 2008. The goals of the conference are to explore the interconnections between the environment and human development, peace, trade, and human rights, to build youth leadership, and to turn knowledge and energy into action. Jeff also enjoys hearing ice cubes crack, is an avid traveler, and smiles a lot.