Clare Mochrie is a planner with local and international work experience in the areas of social and environmental planning, sustainable development, health planning, corporate accountability, labour and employment and community economic development. She holds a Masters degree in Planning from the School of Community and Regional Planning at the University of British Columbia and a Bachelor of Commerce from McGill University. She has worked with a wide range of clients and partners in the public, private and non-governmental sectors. To these, she offers a rich skill set in research, policy analysis, project management, communications, program evaluation and facilitation.
Clare has been engaged on various program reviews, consultations and policy initiatives with the Government of British Columbia including a review of the provincial building industry and a number of major projects in the area of prescription drug policy and health care. She has also worked on a broad range of research and evaluation projects with non-governmental agencies and the University of British Columbia.
Over the past year, Clare has been involved in a number of projects focused on addressing employment barriers and the growing skills gap in the trades, the cultural sector and among marginalized groups. She has been working with the Fraser Basin Council to develop a set of rural and urban indicators to track and monitor sustainability in the Fraser Basin. She has also been engaged as a project management/research consultant for the BC Ministry of Health Services and as Project Manager on a national research project funded by Industry Canada's Initiative on the New Economy program.
Clare continues
to work with the indicator initiative of the Fraser Basin Council. She is involved
on projects with the Greater Victoria Public Library and the Employment Access
for Skilled Immigrants Initiative. She has also just recently joined the research
team of the Regional Vancouver Urban Observatory Project, an initiative of the
United Nations Program for Human Settlements based at Simon Fraser University.
Clare is the current chair of the Aurora Institute. She is also pursuing a PhD
at the School of Community and Regional Planning looking at civic engagement
in health policy.