Michael Barkusky holds a BA (Honours) in Economics (University of Cape Town, 1977), an MBA with a focus on accounting, finance and information systems (University of British Columbia, 1982) and the CGA designation (since 1985). He has worked as an employee and as an entrepreneur, and in sectors as diverse as manufacturing, international trade and wholesaling, support of professional legal services and delivery of accounting services to clients, and most recently, in carbon finance and First Nations community economic development, primarily in Vancouver. He has taught accounting at a community college, made numerous presentations to a wide variety of audiences and was lead author on a paper presented at the 2005 CANSEE conference subsequently published in a peer-reviewed journal. He maintains memberships in the Association of Professional Economists of BC as well as in the BC and national CGA Associations, and serves on the boards of two other non-profit organizations, Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society – BC chapter, and False Creek Watershed Society. In 2008-09 he studied Ecological Economics more formally, undertaking a Master's level course offered by distance learning at the University of Nebraska. He has attended all CANSEE conferences held since 2003, served on the CANSEE Executive since 2006, represented CANSEE at the 2008 ISEE conference in Nairobi, and helped organize the 2009 CANSEE conference in Vancouver.
Instructor:
Michael Barkusky, MBA, CGA
Michael Barkusky holds a BA (Honours) in Economics (University of Cape Town, 1977), an MBA with a focus on accounting, finance and information systems (University of British Columbia, 1982) and the CGA designation (since 1985). He has worked as an employee and as an entrepreneur, and in sectors as diverse as manufacturing, international trade and wholesaling, support of professional legal services and delivery of accounting services to clients, and most recently, in carbon finance and First Nations community economic development, primarily in Vancouver. He has taught accounting at a community college, made numerous presentations to a wide variety of audiences and was lead author on a paper presented at the 2005 CANSEE conference subsequently published in a peer-reviewed journal. He maintains memberships in the Association of Professional Economists of BC as well as in the BC and national CGA Associations, and serves on the boards of two other non-profit organizations, Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society – BC chapter, and False Creek Watershed Society. In 2008-09 he studied Ecological Economics more formally, undertaking a Master's level course offered by distance learning at the University of Nebraska. He has attended all CANSEE conferences held since 2003, served on the CANSEE Executive since 2006, represented CANSEE at the 2008 ISEE conference in Nairobi, and helped organize the 2009 CANSEE conference in Vancouver.