Ms. Marjan Radjavi, B.A. (McGill), M.A. (Laval), is a research fellow with the CISDL. A full professor at Dawson College (Humanities and North-South Studies) specializing in sustainable development, international relations, and gender, and partaking in curricular reform, she is also a research director and associate at McGill University Centre for Research and Teaching on Women.  Recently Ms. Radjavi has also taught research methods at the Department of Social Planning and Sociology at Shiraz University, in collaboration with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) International Graduate Program in Population and Development and at Mexico City’s CIDE Law Faculty.  She has acted as director of Elements International Ltd., a Sustainable Development Services Firm based in UK, and most recently consulted with the Royal Institute for International Affairs (Chatham House, London), the Canadian government, the World Water Forum of Journalists (WWFJ), and the McGill Faculty of Law Centre for Regulated Industries, amongst others. Ms. Radjavi has acted as the International Cannes Water Symposium Chair and Co-president of the Women Water and Power Network with UNESCO, as the Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO) Int’l Civil Society/Women’s Major Group Representative to WSSD negotiations, as civil society representative to WSSD-EEC negotiations, and as Women’s Council NGO Advisor (Shiraz, Iran).  She is an active member of the Association for Women’s Rights in Development, the Canadian Association of Sociology and Anthropology, the American Ethnological Association, and a past member of the Sisterhood is Global Institute network. She has spoken and published in the areas of capacity building for gender in journalism; gender perspectives on ecological sustainability and equity; and gender and water, as well as on culture and identity issues. Her films include the independent production ‘Butterfly’ (in progress, Documentary Studio), 'After the Hurricane' (IDRC), 'Networks' and 'The Other Side of the Street' (WETV, the Global Access Television Network and UNESCO).  She is a founding member of Green Accord, a newly-established international governance body for environmental journalism.