Jean-Philippe WAAUB is an expert in international environment and social impact assessment with 40 years of experience in the field. His various projects included collaboration with First Nations in Canada, and he also worked on global projects in Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean. Jean-Philippe’s work focuses on environmental assessment systems (Strategic environmental assessment (SEA), Environmental and social impact assessment (ESIA), monitoring, auditing, public participation, adapted processes and tools), decision-support tools applied to land, resource, and environmental management (multi-criteria decision aid; integrated and group decision-support systems; public participation), and energy and environmental planning.
As an expert for the Technical Assistance Partnership-Expert Deployment Mechanism (TAP-EDM) initiative, Jean-Philippe works alongside Marc-Antoine Ladouceur, another Canadian expert. They support the Government of Morocco’s Ministry of Energy Transition and Sustainable Development in strengthening the implementation of the country’s new law 49-17 on environmental assessment. This new law 49-17 will contribute to programs and initiatives more systematically considering environmental and social impacts by proposing, among other issues, realistic and gender-sensitive mitigation measures, ensuring that the initiative is inclusive and considerate of all stakeholders.
Based in Montreal area, Jean-Philippe chairs the consulting firm E3SA Consultants Inc. He is also a retired associate professor in the Department of Geography at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). Prior to his retirement, Jean-Philippe was a regular professor UQAM from 1993 to 1999, then a full professor from 1999 to 2023. He notably led the Group for research and decision analysis (GERAD; 2011-2015; Strategic cluster of the Fonds de recherche du Québec – nature et technologies) and was Vice-Dean of Research at the Faculty of Human Sciences at UQAM. He is a member of the Groupe d’études interdisciplinaires en géographie et environnement régional (GEIGER) at the Institut des sciences de l’environnement (ISE, UQAM). Jean-Philippe holds a Ph.D. in planning from Université de Montréal, a master’s degree in land-use planning and regional development from the Université Laval, and an agricultural engineering degree from the Faculté des sciences agronomiques de l’état, Gembloux in Belgium.