Chamber Luncheon CANCELED: Mining for Sustainable Communities

TODAY'S LUNCHEON HAS BEEN CANCELED. PLEASE JOIN US NEXT WEEK.

Weekly luncheons are held every Wednesday at noon. Enjoy great food, dynamic speakers, and exciting networking opportunities. Chamber luncheons are open to the public. Chamber members receive special member-only pricing.

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Russell's
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Speaker
Bob Loeffler
Visiting Professor of Public Policy
UAA Institute of Social and Economic Research

Biography
Bob Loeffler has a Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering from Stanford University and a Master’s Degree in Regional Planning from Harvard University.   Since 2010, he has been a Visiting Professor of Public Policy at the UAA Institute of Social and Economic Research.  He is also a partner in Jade North LLC, a small Alaskan consulting firm, and specializes in working with mining and other natural resource issues.  His clients include industry, government, native groups, and non-profits.
 
Bob came to Alaska with the US Geological Survey in 1977 and has worked in various capacities around Alaska since that time, much of it with the Alaska Department of Natural Resources.  In the early 1990s, he was Planning Director for the Exxon Valdez Trustee Council (the federal-state agency that worked to restore Prince William Sound after the 1989 oil spill).  He came back to the Department of Natural Resources to coordinate permitting of large mines in 1996, and in 1999 became Director of the Alaska Division of Mining, Land and Water, a position he held until November of 2005.