Biography

University of Calgary - Environmental Science

Academic-Environmental Consultant
Higher Education
Noel
Keough
Calgary, Canada Area
Noel is an Assistant Professor of Sustainable Design at the University of Calgary, Faculty of Environmental Design. His research interests include community sustainability indicators; affordable living; sustainable and low carbon cities and the social economy. His most recent projects focus on the transition of inner city industrial lands and the role of cooperatives and social enterprise in building a sustainable economy.

Noel is a co-founder of two not-for-profits: Sustainable Calgary Society and Civic Camp Calgary. Since 1996 Noel has worked a lead researcher or consultant on 5 ‘State of Our City’ community sustainability indicator reports for Sustainable Calgary Society as well as indicator projects for Banff, Alberta and as a member of the Canadian Index of Well-being National Advisory Group.

Noel served on the environmental working group of the imagineCalgary 100 year vision exercise and was a citizen-representative to the Municipal Development Plan and Calgary Transportation Plan processes. More recently Noel has consulted with City of Calgary Office of Sustainability on the design of a tool for improving the effectiveness of indicator reporting for municipal policy-makers.

Noel is Board Chairperson for Plan Net Ltd., a small Calgary-based international development planning consultancy. He has worked on development projects, international collaborations and development project evaluations in South and Central Asia, Latin America and The Middle East.

Noel recently served on the Mayor’s Advisory Panel for the Calgary Economic Development Strategic Plan. For the past 12 years he has served in various capacities on volunteer committees of the United Way of Calgary and Area.

In 2005 was honoured with an Alberta Centennial Medal in recognition of outstanding service to the people and province of Alberta and in 2009 received the Jim Gray Safer Calgary award for contributions to making Calgary a Safer City.