Meet the Board of Directors and Staff

President: Bert van Duin M.Sc., P. Eng.

Bert has over 20 years of experience in the analysis, planning, design and management of urban and rural drainage, stormwater management and watershed management projects in Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Ontario, with special interest in sustainability initiatives. He recently joined City of Calgary Water Resources to guide its practical implementation of Source Control Practices. Bert is one of the founding members of the Alberta Low Impact Development Partnership. He has spoken widely on stormwater quality, constructed wetlands, and rainwater harvesting and streams in urbanizing regions. As member of the Bow River Basin Council, he served on one of the Basin Advisory Committees for the South Saskatchewan River Basin Management Plan, and currently serves on the Legislation and Policy Standing Committee. In addition to his daily duties he is also Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Schulich School of Engineering at the University of Calgary. He is member of the Urban Water Resources Research Council and is involved with several working groups of the IWA/IAHR Joint Committee on Urban Drainage.

Vice-President: Liliana Bozic M.Sc., P.Eng.

Liliana is a watershed engineer with Urban Systems. She is a founding member of the ALIDP and helped develop the Partnership’s Mission, Terms of Reference, Strategic Action Plan and budget, and was instrumental in promoting the Partnership to the broad stakeholder base. She also initiated the inter-provincial partnership with BC and Ontario whose goal is to further the development of appropriate design tools and act as a knowledge base and support network for the implementation of sustainable land development practices. Liliana was instrumental in developing the City of Calgary's integrated stormwater management strategies and guidelines.

Secretary: Lesley Kalmakoff M.E.Des. , GIT

Lesley Kalmakoff is a Municipal Planner for Rocky View County, where she coordinates and provides planning advice at the early stages of development where innovative designs may be contemplated, reviews regulations, approvals processes, and the evolution of municipal policy. She also participates in creating and implementing management plans for several local watersheds. Her recent masters project explored the link between land use planning and impacts to watershed resources, and investigated the application of Low Impact Development measures to a generic commercial/industrial site in the Nose Creek Watershed near Calgary. Lesley is a member of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia, Canadian Institute of Planners (AACIP), and the Canadian Water Resources Association (CWRA).

 Treasurer: Asad Niazi MBA, B.Eng.

Asad is Vice President, Land Development, Bordeaux Developments Corporation that operates in the Calgary area.  After a ten year career as a consulting engineer, Asad was motivated by his MBA studies to join Bordeaux to apply his talents to building a development business. Prior to joining Bordeaux, Asad worked with UMA Engineering, leading a team of professionals actively involved in the different aspects of land development. Besides managing the internal forces required to complete a project, Asad has the experience of dealing with municipal governments in Alberta and Ontario.  Asad has a Bachelor of Engineering Degree and a Masters of Business Administration Degree from the Haskayne School of Business (University of Calgary). He is also a member of The Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta (APPEGA) and Professional Engineers of Ontario (PEO). 

Director: Vanessa Higgins C. Tech., CEPIT

Vanessa Higgins is Watershed Specialist for Strathcona County Utilities in Sherwood Park, Alberta. Vanessa researches, analyzes and implements emerging technologies and opportunities in stormwater and water conservation management across the County. She also provides internal and external technical and operational support and expertise relative to stormwater and water conservation management. Vanessa enjoys using her creativity to produce communication materials specific to marketing strategies for water quality, conservation and management initiatives with the intent of modifying customer behaviours and develop programs for services provided by the department.

Director: Tony Druett

Bio coming soon

Director: Judy Stewart

Bio coming soon

Previous ALIDP Board Members

Doug Marter, City of Calgary; Lyndon Gyurek, City of Edmonton.

Coordinator: Leta van Duin B.Sc. (Geography)

Leta’s background has turned out to be well matched to the work of the ALIDP. For example, she led the use of GIS for the detailed West Nose Creek stream corridor assessment within Calgary. During this lengthy project, she gained a deep appreciation for the many factors and methods involved in characterizing and analyzing stream and riparian function. Through ten years of civil and environmental consulting engineering support, she honed her graphic design and technical communications skills. More recently, mostly for fun, she designed and managed the construction of the Emerald Award-nominated $110K rain garden project at Alexander Ferguson Elementary School in Calgary. The project is a case study in the Land Stewardship Network’s Green Communities Guide. She has consulted to the University of Calgary on bioswale plant selection and enjoys growing her own native plants. She seeks grassroots opportunities to combine progressive lot- and community-level stormwater management practices with eco-sensitive landscaping choices, beyond a ‘chicken in every pot’ to a ‘rain garden in every lot’.