Edmonton, AB

In this third and final episode, host Mary Rowe speaks with Don Iveson, whose civic and public sector career touches on the many components of urban infrastructure requiring healthy measures of investment and innovation.

After four terms of elected service at Edmonton City Hall, Don founded Civic Good, a public policy advisory practice working on climate resilience, housing innovation, and civic innovation projects with like-minded clients ranging from startups to governments. Don continues to live in Edmonton, but works with organizations across Canada, including his recent appointment as Chairperson of the Canada Housing and Mortgage Corporation. His primary engagement is with Co-operators as Executive Advisor for Climate Investing and Community Resilience. He writes occasionally about his work on his Civic Good Substack. Believing strongly in connecting passion with service, he volunteers as Board Co-Chair of the Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness. More recently he was appointed Co-Chair of the Task Force on Housing and Climate. Don also held an two-year appointment as a School of Cities Canadian Urban Leader at the University of Toronto, co-developing the Metropolitan Mindset initiative on regionalism.