IEF 2007

Biography

Duncan Hanks is the Executive Director of the Canadian Baha’i International Development Agency (www.cbida.ca). He has lived and worked internationally for twenty years supporting international development programs in education, youth training, leadership, public and primary health, public administration and governance, information and communication technologies, organizational capacity building and the use of participatory methodologies for sustainable development.

Duncan also works as an independent international development consultant. He is a founding director of Wave Energy Technologies Inc., a private Canadian business harnessing renewable ocean wave energy for electrical generation, desalination, and aquaculture. He is engaged in both business development and corporate social responsibility. He is also a founding member of Breakwell Education Association, a not-for-profit corporation advancing academic excellence and moral education in schools.

He has a Master’s degree in International Development Management and an undergraduate degree in Administrative and Commercial Studies. He has executive experience working in NGO administration, project and program development and management, and management training in Canada, United States, Indonesia, Bolivia and Ecuador. He currently resides with his wife and two children in Almonte, ON Canada.