Pascal Lesage, Eng., PhD

Based in Montreal, Canada, Pascal Lesage joined the Sylvatica team in 2007. His experience lies mostly in Life Cycle Assessment, having worked as a research officer at the CIRAIG (Interuniversity Research Centre for the Life Cycle of Products, Processes and Services) from 2005 to 2007. He holds a BS in civil engineering, where he mostly focused on end-of-pipe solutions to environmental problems. It is during his graduate studies that his vision concerning the responsibility of engineers towards society and the environment became much broader. He is well versed in eco-efficiency, design for environment, industrial ecology and, most of all, LCA. His Ph.D., completed in 2005, compared attributional and consequential LCA models for contaminated urban brownfield management options.

Marylène Dussault, M.S.

Marylene joined Sylvatica in 2008 as an analyst. Prior to Sylvatica, Marylene worked for the Quebec Ministry of the Environment, where she was an analyst on the environmental impacts of infrastructure projects. She has also worked at the CIRAIG (Interuniversity Research Centre for the Life Cycle of Products, Processes and Services) in Montreal. Marylene completed her Masters in Chemical Engineering at École Polytechnique de Montréal in 2006, and she also holds a Bachelors degree in Chemistry from the University of Montreal.

Evan Andrews, B.S.

Evan joined Sylvatica in 2008 as an analyst in the Montreal office. He works on the Earthster and Open Input-Output initiatives at Sylvatica, and does LCA consulting for clients. Evan previously consulted for RETEC-ENSR in Seattle, conducting regulatory and greenhouse gas emissions reporting in the petroleum, sea shipping, and electric utility sectors. He has also worked as a researcher at the University of Quebec at Montreal on the integration of social impacts into an input-output life-cycle assessment model. Evan holds a B.S. in Labor Relations from the ilr school at Cornell University, and is currently pursuing a Masters degree in Environmental Management. His current research studies how the economy changes in response to green-purchasing decisions.