James Tansey

James Tansey currently works as the Vice President of Carbon Analytics for EarthDaily Analytics and CEO of Carbon Done Right. He previously worked at Offsetters as the CEO. James Tansey attended the University of East Anglia. He is also an associate professor at the University of British Columbia’s Sauder School of Business and is the Executive Director of ISIS, a Research Centre at the Sauder School of Business dedicated to social innovation and sustainability. He has taught in MBA, EMBA, Executive Education, MSc and Undergraduate programs in the UK and Canada. Following the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games, James was selected as one of four international advisers working with the United Nations Environment Programme on the environmental strategy for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia. James has worked as an advisor and contributor to the World Economic Forum, the UK National Audit Office, Oxford Analytica, Cisco, ISIS Innovation (Oxford), Environment Canada and the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency. Research by James covers a number of areas, including the social impacts and acceptability of new technologies such as stem cells and biobanks. He has written extensively on the role of public consultation in the governance of industrial societies, industrial ecology, scenario methods and climate change. More recently, his research has focused on emerging international markets for carbon exchange, social determinants of health in developed countries and the governance of biotechnology and genomics in Canada.