George Brown consults and trains in the area of community-based social and economic development, including local government policy and management, crime prevention through social development, stakeholder involvement in community decisions, local government and social agency productivity, and accountability and control.  His experience includes nine years as a member of Ottawa's City Council, Chair of the City's Economic Affairs Committee, and initiator of the Metropolitan Entrepreneurship Centre and the Ottawa-Carleton Community Enterprise Centre. George Brown has an Honours B.A. in law and sociology, and a MSc. in Community Economic Development and post-graduate work at the Maryknoll Institute for Justice and Peace.  He is currently the Coordinator of the Ottawa Community Loan Fund.


Duff Conacher, LL.B., is an internationally recognized leader in the area of democratic reform and government accountability.  He is a former Ralph Nader's Raider and he has worked as a researcher, community organizer and educator, legal intern and consultant.  A graduate of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, he has a long-standing interest in democratic process and corporate responsibility issues.  He was the main Founder of Democracy Watch, was Coordinator from 1993 to June 2011, and is still a Director and spokesperson on many issues for the organization.  Duff also designed and delivered dozens of civics education and organizational development workshops from 1993 to 2011 as Assistant Coordinator of DEN.  His past work includes organizing the first chapter of Quebec PIRG (Quebec Public Interest Research Group) at McGill University in 1988, serving as a member of the Board of Directors of University of Toronto and Ontario PIRG from 1988 to 1991, and playing a key support role in organizing PIRG chapters at four other universities in Quebec, Nova Scotia, Ontario and Alberta between 1988 and 2002.  He is is also co-author, with Ralph Nader and Nadia Milleron, of Canada firsts: Ralph Nader's Salute to Canada and Canadian Achievement which spent six months on Canadian best-seller lists in 1993 and was the #1 best-seller for five weeks, and author of the best-selling More Canada Firsts: Another Collection of Canadian Firsts and Foremosts in the World (1999).