Paul Kariya

Dr Paul Kariya is Executive Director of the Independent Power Producers Association of British Columbia, an industry association helping to develop the renewable energy sector in Western Canada. Paul continues at Trinity Western University, in Langley BC as an adjunct faculty member in the Master of Arts Leadership program. TWU is a liberal arts Christian university and Canada’s largest private university with 3,000 students. Prior to this, Paul was the Executive Director of Pacific Salmon Foundation (PSF), a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the protection, conservation and recovery of Pacific salmon based in Vancouver BC.

Paul obtained a BA Hon in Geography from the University of BC and went on to complete an MA and PhD (in Geography) at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. Paul grew up on the West Coast of Vancouver Island as the son of a Japanese-Canadian salmon fisherman. Love of the ocean and for God’s creation comes from these beginnings. Paul is married and has 3 adult children.