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Jack Ruitenbeek is President of H.J. Ruitenbeek Resource Consulting Limited (HJRRCL), a Canadian firm specializing in the economic analysis of natural resource, environmental, and human security issues. Its work over the past two decades has spanned projects in North America, Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean, for clients that include national governments, international aid and lending agencies, the private sector, and international environmental non-governmental organizations. He holds degrees in physics and natural resource economics, as well as a Ph.D. in development economics from the London School of Economics. He is a founding member of the Canadian Chapter of the International Society for Ecological Economics, and has served as expert witness to various regulatory commissions and tribunals. His published work deals with environmental economic analysis, and with the modelling of social, ecological, and economic indicators. His current research interests include coastal zone management and protected area analysis, focusing on coral reef systems.