Ben West

Biographie

Ben West is the Executive Director of eDemocracy Solutions and the Carbon Budget Project that empowers people to solve one of the world’s most complex and polarizing problems with a breakthrough in participatory democracy.

As a child, some of Ben’s earliest memories include taking detailed minutes with crayons for his parent’s housing co-op board meetings.  As an adult, he has transferred those organizational skills into a search for the most innovative opportunities to create a sustainable ecosystem. As an environmental campaigner and communications geek, Ben has been an outspoken voice in the media and has helped shape the debate of many climates and environmental health-related issues in Canada.

Ben has worked as a Communications Coordinator and Project Lead for the Tsliel-Waututh First Nation, as Communications/ PR Manager for an innovative tech start-up, and as strategist and advisor for a wide array of clients. He also served as Campaign Director for Forest Ethics (Stand) a campaigner with the Western Canada Wilderness Committee and Executive Director of Tanker Free BC. He co-founded ‘The Great Climate Race’, an annual event providing opportunities to educate and engage runners and walkers and to raise money per kilometre for local renewable energy projects.