Raymond Côté is Professor Emeritus in Environmental Studies at Dalhousie University. Prior to his retirement in June 2008, he was Professor of Environmental Studies at the School for Resource and Environmental Studies, Director of the award winning Eco-Efficiency Centre and holder of the R.A. Jodrey Chair in Management at Dalhousie University until June, 2008. He also held cross appointments in Planning, International Development Studies and Environmental Science. In 2007, he received the Faculty of Management Award for Exceptional Interdisciplinary Endeavor in Scholarly Research and in 2008, he was presented with the Faculty of Management’s Advisory Board Award for External Impact.

Mr.Côté’s interests have evolved from the management of chemicals and wastes to industrial ecology, a systems approach to the management of resource and environmental issues, particularly in industrial parks. He is co-editor of several books including Controlling Chemical Hazards, Business Meets the Environmental Challenge, the Industrial Ecology Reader and Linking Industry and Ecology: A Question of Design.

He has been a columnist for a business newspaper in Nova Scotia since 1994. He has served as an advisor to the United Nations Environment Programme on environmental management of industrial parks. Prof. Côté is a member of the National Advisory Council on Energy Efficiency and serves on the Board of the Resource Recovery Fund in Nova Scotia.

In December 2007, Prof. Côté was appointed as Chair of the Nova Scotia Round Table on Environment and Sustainable Prosperity for a 3 year term. In 2007, he was recognized by Progress Magazine as one of twenty creative Atlantic Canadians influencing the region. In 2009, he received the John de Gonzague Memorial Pollution Prevention Visionary Award for inspiring and achieving excellence in pollution prevention in Canada. Prof. Côté has 40 years of experience in the field of environmental management as a regulator, administrator, researcher, teacher and consultant.