Ahab Abdel-Aziz
Heenan Blaikie

Ahab Abdel-Aziz is a partner in Heenan Blaikie's Business Law Group. His practice includes commercial, regulatory, and litigation aspects of energy and environmental law. Mr. Abdel-Aziz has represented major corporate clients and crown corporations in civil, regulatory, judicial review and quasi-criminal proceedings before the provincial and federal courts, arbitration panels, administrative hearing tribunals and in mediation.

For over 15 years, Mr. Abdel-Aziz has been active in representing and advising leading members of the Canadian nuclear and electrical power generation industries on matters related to all aspects of licensing, regulatory compliance, environmental assessments and strategic planning for both existing and planned nuclear facilities as well as the exploration, refining and retail marketing sides of the petroleum industry . He has represented major corporate clients and crown corporations in civil, regulatory, judicial review and quasi-criminal proceedings before the provincial and federal courts, arbitration panels, administrative hearing tribunals and in mediation.

Mr. Abdel-Aziz is a founding executive member and a director of the National Brownfield Association and a past member of the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy's (NRTEE) National Brownfield Redevelopment Strategy Task Force, in which he was the principal author of the NRTEE's initiative - the National Brownfield Redevelopment Strategy. He is past Vice Chair of the Environmental Crimes and Enforcement Committee of the American Bar Association (ABA) as well as a member of the ABA's International Environmental Law Committee and Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section. Mr. Abdel-Aziz has previously served as an executive member of the Ontario Bar Association Environmental Law Section and as a trustee of the Metropolitan Toronto Lawyers Association

Brian Armstrong
Bruce Power

Brian Armstrong is Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Bruce Power. He was educated at St. Andrew's College in Aurora, graduating in 1961. In 1965, he received an Honours B.A. in Political Science and Economics from Trinity College in the University of Toronto and subsequently earned an LL.B. from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1968.

Brian is a former Director of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the Canadian Institute for Environmental Law and Policy, the Sierra Club of Ontario Foundation, and the Dellcrest Childrens' Centre. He is a Past President and an Honourary Director of the Albany Club of Toronto, a Past Chairman of the Board of Governors of St. Andrew's College, and a former Director of the Canadian Educational Standards Institute.

Stan Berger
Ontario Power Generation

Stan Berger is an Assistant General Counsel for Ontario Power Generation, providing legal services chiefly, but not exclusively to the Nuclear Division on matters relating to regulation, security, the environment, and access to information. He is a past president and current member of the Board of Management of the International Nuclear Law Association in Brussels. He is the author of numerous environmental related articles notably "Environmental Law Developments in Nuclear Energy" which appears in the 2007 issue of Key Developments in Environmental Law, a journal he edits for Carswell-Thomson Reuters . He is also the author of a loose leaf service for Carswell entitled "The Prosecution and Defence of Environmental Offences."

Before joining OPG in January 1998, Stan served for 9 years as Senior Crown Counsel and, Deputy Director-Prosecutions, in the Legal Services Branch, Ministry of Environment and Energy (MOEE) of Ontario where he litigated before tribunals and various levels of Court throughout the Province. He chaired an external stakeholder committee advising the MOEE on a policy on the use of environmental audits which was brought in to effect as Policy H-9 in 1995. From 1981-1989 Stan was an assistant crown attorney prosecuting criminal cases before judges and juries primarily in Toronto.

David Brennan
Ontario Power Generation

David Brennan is Senior Vice President, Law and General Counsel at Ontario Power Generation Inc. (OPG). Mr. Brennan joined OPG in September 2006 and is responsible for the daily operations of OPG's in-house legal department, including selecting and supervising outside counsel, providing legal input on major transactions and ensuring that the legal staff is proactive and business-minded. This also includes developing a team of business law practitioners.

He has a LL.B. from the University of Western Ontario and was admitted to the Alberta Bar in 1983 and the Ontario Bar in 1986.

Krista F. Hill
Torys LLP

Krista Hill is the co-coordinator of Torys' Infrastructure and Energy Practice.

Her Practice Areas and Industry Groups include: Climate Change, Construction, Corporate and Capital Markets Equity, Gas and Power Markets, Infrastructure and Energy, Infrastructure and Energy Regulatory, IPOs, Mergers and Acquisitions, Privatizations, Private Equity, Project Development and Finance, Public-Private Partnerships, Securities.

Krista is an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, where she teaches on energy and natural resources law. Krista is a past executive member of the Ontario Bar Association's Natural Resources and Energy section and the Canadian Bar Association's Securities Law Subcommittee.

Jacques Lavoie
Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission

In 2004, Jacques Lavoie was appointed by Justice Canada as General Counsel to the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission's (CNSC) Legal Services Division. Following an assignment with Public Safety Canada, he rejoined the CNSC team in 2008, as Senior General Counsel, and was tasked by the President to create an in-house legal service independent from Justice Canada.

He has studied law at the Université de Sherbrooke in Québec and criminology at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia and is a member of the Law Society of British Columbia and the Canadian Bar Association. Over the last 25 years, he has gained extensive experience in law, policing and the administration of justice in British Columbia, Québec and Ontario, through his work with Public Safety Canada, Justice Canada, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), the Canada Firearms Centre and the Department of National Defence (DND).

David J McFadden
Gowlings

David McFadden is Chair of Gowlings' National Energy and Infrastructure Industry Group. He acts for a broad range of clients involved in infrastructure development and in power generation, distribution, sales and financing.

Mr. McFadden was a member of the Electric System Working Group, part of the Joint Canada-U.S. Task Force established to investigate the power blackout that hit Ontario and much of the Northeastern United States in August 2003. The final report of the Task Force, issued in April 2004, set out a blueprint to enhance the reliability of the North American electricity grid.

Mr. McFadden served on the Ontario Government's Electricity Conservation and Supply Task Force, which issued its final report in January 2004, providing a strategy to meet the future energy demands of the province.

Since October 1996, he has been Chair of the Stakeholders Alliance for Electricity Competition and Customer Choice, a broad coalition of business and energy-related organizations including the Association of Major Power Consumers, Association of Exporters and Manufacturers, the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, the Electricity Distributors Association of Ontario, the Ontario Energy Association and the Association of Power Producers of Ontario.

From 1996 to 1999, he served as Chair of the Toronto Board of Trade's Task Force on the Electricity Industry.

Mr. McFadden served as a director of the Toronto Board of Trade, Canada's largest Board of Trade or Chamber of Commerce from 1993 to 2001. He served as both Chair of the Board of Directors of the Toronto Board of Trade from 1999 to 2000 and Vice-Chair from 1996 to 1999, Chair of the Governance Committee and Chair of the World Trade Committee. He is currently a member of the Toronto Board of Trade's Electricity Task Force.

Mr. McFadden is currently Chair of the Board of the Detroit and Canada Tunnel Corporation and PCI Geomatics Inc. and Deputy Chair of the Board of Macquarie Canadian Infrastructure Management Limited. He is director of 407 International Inc., Anthony-Domtar Inc., Sanyo Canadian Machine Works Incorporated and the Toronto Economic Development Corporation. He previously served as President and Chairman of the Board of Environics Research Group.

Mr. McFadden was a member of the Ontario Legislature from 1985 to 1987.

Julia Schwartz
OECD / Nuclear Energy Agency

Julia Schwartz, a Canadian national, is currently Head of the Legal Affairs Section of the OECD/Nuclear Energy Agency where she has worked as a legal advisor since 1995. She is responsible for providing legal advice and secretariat services to the NEA's Nuclear Law Committee, advising NEA management on all legal aspects of the Agency's activities, assisting member countries in the establishment of international joint projects and ensuring the success of the Agency's nuclear law information and education programme. One of the most important functions carried out during her tenure with the NEA has been the extensive legal assistance given to the Contracting Parties to the Paris and Brussels Supplementary Conventions in connection with the recent revision of those instruments.

Before joining the OECD, Julia worked as in-house counsel to Atomic Energy of Canada Limited where she dealt with matters of domestic and foreign nuclear law, public law and policy, environmental law and with commercial transactions. She began her professional career with the Canadian Department of Justice where she was involved in legislative, financial administration and scientific procurement issues.

She has been a long standing member of the International Nuclear Law Association, and since October of 2007, has been a member of its Board of Management. She is an observer to the IAEA's INLEX (International Expert Group on Nuclear Liability) and regularly lectures on nuclear liability and compensation at the International School of Nuclear Law, jointly organized by the OECD/NEA and the University of Montpellier 1. She currently holds the position of Registrar of the European Nuclear Energy Tribunal and is a member in good standing of the Ontario Bar.

Judy L. Wilson
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Judy Wilson is a partner at the law firm of Blakes and has practised commercial law for over twenty years having experience dealing with infrastructure (hospitals, water, wastewater, solid waste, energy etc.) and public procurement of goods and services as well as outsourcing. Judy has advised clients locally, nationally and internationally on the full spectrum of infrastructure and public procurement issues. She has extensive international and domestic experience in contracts to engage the private sector in the provision of traditional "government" services including design-build, operations and maintenance and facilities management of public sector facilities as well as the provision of clinical services in the community care sector. Recent projects include:

• Ontario's nuclear new build project;
• various projects with Infrastructure Ontario with respect to alternative financing for hospitals and other public facilities;
• various types of contracts between government and the private sector with respect to nursing homes, long term care facilities, air ambulance, telehealth and community care access centres; and
• legal services related to management contracts, operating contracts and leases in the water and wastewater sector in Canada, South Africa, the West Bank, Jordan, Gaza, Armenia, Uzbekistan, the Philippines, Zambia, India, the Ukraine and Mozambique