Dr. David Robinson is an economist active in promoting sustainable northern development and climate action. He is most widely known for over 150 columns in local media focussing on Northern economic issues, for starting the McEwan School of Architecture, and for being the first to identify and promote the mining supply and services sector in Northeastern Ontario as a key economic driver for Sudbury. He has also been a candidate federally and provincially for the Green Party.
Retired now, David is especially focused on reducing thbeen a canddiate for Ght Green Party of Canada and for theGreen Party of Ontario.e threat of climate change for the sake of his children, grandchildren, and the rest of humanity’s children.
He has helped develop a genuinely effective climate policy for Ontario and a talent-based strategy for dynamic economic development in Sudbury.
David taught public policy, resource economics, environmental economics, as well as econometrics and general theory at Laurentian University for 33 years. He is the author of two books, numerous book chapters on Northern Ontario Development, and a handful of published poems, as well as most of the blogs on this site.
His current project is teaching a course on Sustainable Northern Ontario Economic Development aimed at the economic development community.
Working with his family, he was instrumental in bringing the playwright development organization Pat the Dog to Sudbury and drove the creation of a park in his neighbourhood which is now part of Rainbow routes.
He was a member of the founding board of social-action-oriented Gallery 6500 located in the local Steelworkers Hall, served on the Senate of Laurentian University, as Director of the Institute for Northern Ontario Development, and was a senior fellow at the Northern Ontario Policy Institute.
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