John Marczyk is from the Ministry of Forests where he was a Senior Policy Analyst for the Corporate Policy and Planning Brnach. In that position, he supported the ministry's participation in treaty negotiations. John has more than 12 years of land-use planning and policy coordination experience in western Canada and more recently, in South East Asia. John holds a graduate degree in natural resource management, with a specialization in integrated resource planning. Norm Ringstad is from the Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources where he held the position of Manager of the province's Mine Development Assessment process.
Norm holds a graduate degree in fisheries management.
He spent his first 13 years of government service with the Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks as a regional fisheries biologist, environmental planner and coordinator of environmental input to mine reviews. Norm joined the Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources in 1987. Daphne Stancil comes to the office from the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food where she was Director of the Legislation Branch. After earning a law degree, she practiced law in the private sector for a few years and provided policy and legislative advice to government on a consulting basis before rejoining the public service in 1991. A comprehensive Guide to the British Columbia Environmental Assessment Process is now available.