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David
J. Simpson Director
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David is Director of InterPraxis Consulting, a socio-economic consulting firm
specializing in international development, ethics and corporate social
responsibility, stakeholder engagement, and participatory action research
and planning methodologies.
Born
in Glasgow, Scotland, David immigrated to Canada and became a Canadian citizen
in 1990. He has lived in various cities across Canada including Winnipeg, Quebec
City, Ottawa and currently resides in Toronto. He has both European and Canadian Citizenship and speaks English, French and
Spanish.
Professional
Experience - Earlier
in his career David worked as a researcher with the Canadian International
Development Agency (CIDA) and as an economic development officer with the
Embassy of Argentina in Canada.
A former deputy managing editor of the Canadian Foreign Policy Journal, David has
also served as a Teaching Assistant at Carleton University as well as a course
instructor in the Continuing Education Department. He has also been a guest
lecturer at; McMaster University, University of Toronto and the Schulich School
of Business at York University.
For the past 8 years, David has been involved in a number of consulting projects
both nationally and internationally. Some of the organizations he has worked
with have included:
Formerly the Executive Director of the Canadian Centre for
Ethics and Corporate Policy he has most recently served as an advisor to
Environment Canada as well as to Natural Resources on Ethics
and Values in the Public Sector and has been the independent social auditor
for Metro Credit Union (now
Alterna) for its Social
Responsibility Audit since 2000 and is the lead sustainability assurance
provider for VanCity's
award winning Accountability Report. He is Canada's first Certified Lead
Sustainability Assurance Practitioner (CSAP) to be recognized by the
International Register of Certificated Auditors (IRCA) and the Institute of Social and Ethical
AccountAbility in the UK, and holds lead auditor status with the SA 8000 certification standard from Social
Accountability International in New York and has undertaken several
international assignments in Latin America and Asia.
A dynamic speaker, David has been invited to speak on the
topic of corporate social responsibility at events sponsored by the Centre for
Ethics and Corporate Policy, the CICA, and the Conference
Board of Canada. He has been a contributor to the GRI and AA1000 and is an
expert member of the International Working Group developing the ISO Guidance
Standard on Social Responsibility (ISO 26000).
Education - The holder of a Master’s degree from the
Faculty of Public Administration and Management, his major research interests
include: International Development; Adult Education; Social Capital Formation;
Participatory Development and Organizational Change. He was educated at the
University of Winnipeg, Université Laval, and at the Norman
Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University.
Memberships - David serves actively as an elected Council
Member of AccountAbility in London and a Director of the Ethics Practitioners Association
of Canada; a member of the Participatory
Development Forum; Transparency
International (Canada), a designated trainer with Social
Investment Organization as well as a volunteer with the Canadian
Centre for Ethics and Corporate Policy; and, the Canadian
Organization for Development through Education (CODE).
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