Introduction
Timothy Hodges is Professor of Practice in Strategic Approaches to Global Affairs at McGill University's Institute for the Study of International Development (ISID) where, in his work focuses on the application of strategic foresight methodologies in global affairs, the negotiation and implementation of international sustainable development treaties by Indigenous Peoples, governments and stakeholders.
Concurrently, he is Principal Consultant at Timothy J Hodges & Associates, providing leadership training and confidential strategic advisory services to governments, industry, private non-profit organizations, and indigenous and local communities in support of legally-binding treaty and commercial agreement negotiations, foresight analysis and anticipatory planning for organizational resilience.
Timothy Hodges is a former career Canadian diplomat, with a focus on environmental, economic, and trade policy issues including, for example, in the UN General Assembly, G8, WTO, APEC, the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, UN Food and Agricultural Organization, UNESCO, OECD, Organization of American States, NAFTA, and the Arctic Council.
He served as Co-Chair, intergovernmental negotiating committee for the United Nations treaty on Access and Benefit-sharing of Genetic Resources (Nagoya Protocol), 2006-2010.
Timothy Hodges is past President of the Canadian Professional Association of Foreign Service Officers (PAFSO).
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Timothy Hodges is Professor of Practice in Strategic Approaches to Global Affairs at McGill University's Institute for the Study of International Development (ISID) where, in his work focuses on the application of strategic foresight methodologies in global affairs, the negotiation and implementation of international sustainable development treaties by Indigenous Peoples, governments and stakeholders.
Concurrently, he is Principal Consultant at Timothy J Hodges & Associates, providing leadership training and confidential strategic advisory services to governments, industry, private non-profit organizations, and indigenous and local communities in support of legally-binding treaty and commercial agreement negotiations, foresight analysis and anticipatory planning for organizational resilience.
Timothy Hodges is a former career Canadian diplomat, with a focus on environmental, economic, and trade policy issues including, for example, in the UN General Assembly, G8, WTO, APEC, the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, UN Food and Agricultural Organization, UNESCO, OECD, Organization of American States, NAFTA, and the Arctic Council.
Professor Hodges is past President of the Canadian Professional Association of Foreign Service Officers (PAFSO).
Fields of expertise: Environmental policy / climate change, Strategic planning, Sustainable Development Goals