David Miller ’77 places a high value on personal toughness, both in building character and in building a career to advocate for the environment. One would need to be tough to accomplish what David has done. He built a nine-year practice as an employment, immigration and shareholder rights lawyer in Toronto, then walked away from it to run in the high-profile, no-holds-barred world of Toronto municipal politics, winning three elections as a city councillor and another two as mayor of Canada’s largest city for seven years. He has since continued legal work around investment in wind and solar energy, headed WWF-Canada, the Canadian arm of the World Wildlife Fund, and since 2017 has served as the managing director of international diplomacy for C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, an organization of the mayors of the world’s largest cities dedicated to avoiding climate change by making use of the legislative and spending…
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