Michael P. Robinson

Mike Robinson grew up in Vancouver and studied at UBC and, as a Rhodes Scholar, at Oxford. For thirty years he worked in Calgary, in environmental and social affairs in the oil industry, as head of the Arctic Institute of North America and as CEO of the Glenbow Museum, before leading Vancouver's Bill Reid Gallery. He has chaired Friends of the Earth, the David Suzuki Foundation and the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, and was made a Member of the Order of Canada in 2004. His memoir is You Have Been Referred: My Life in Applied Anthropology.