Leah Lawrence

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Leah Lawrence is the candidate^[1]for the Progressive Conservative Party of Alberta in the constituency of Calgary Mountain View in the 27th Alberta general election.

[edit] Background

In 2000, Leah helped start Climate Change Central, the first public-private partnership on climate change in Canada. In 2001, Leah was nominated for a Calgary YWCA Women of Distinction Award in the area of Science, Technology and the Environment. In 2004, she founded Prairie Peaks News, an independent news magazine reporting on natural resource development and environmental issues in western Canada.

More recently, Leah joined a large Canadian oil and gas company and continues to work on finding viable answers to the issues that face Albertans. In 2007, she was elected to the Board of the Calgary Chamber of Commerce.

Leah is an engineer, an economist and a writer, frequently contributing to publications including Alberta Oil Magazine, Oilweek, the Calgary Herald, Enviroline and Environmental Finance (UK). She received a Bachelor of Applied Science in Industrial Systems Engineering from the University of Regina in 1994 and a Masters of Economics from the University of Calgary in 2001.

Leah has lived in the Calgary inner city for over 13 years. She resides with her spouse, Chris Biegler, in Hillhurst where she is an active community volunteer, chairing the Hillhurst-Sunnyside Community Environment (Planning) Committee.