Governance

Eric (Ric) P. Young, Director

Elected: March 7, 2005

President of E.Y.E. For over twenty-five years, Eric Young has been at the vanguard of social marketing, a discipline focused on the development of strategies and campaigns to promote social change. He is the founder and president of E.Y.E., an agency that works with leading government, corporate and voluntary organizations to address some of the most pressing issues facing contemporary society. Young has been the architect of numerous campaigns for change and social innovation projects in areas ranging from health, environmental sustainability and ethics in sport, to citizen engagement, corporate social responsibility, community development and global humanitarian relief.

He has written and lectured extensively throughout North America on the challenge of change, and the remaking of community in the 21st century.

He currently serves on the board of Ecotrust Canada, the Canadian Advisory Board of Right To Play, the editorial advisory board of the Social Marketing Quarterly, and the Corporate Citizenship subcommittee of Imagine Canada. He has joined the faculty at the Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College. He is a fellow of The Royal Society of the Arts and a member of Massey College’s Quadrangle Society.