Dr. Chiotti became the Air Programme Director and Senior Scientist at Pollution Probe in June 2002. He has a Ph. D. in Geography from the University of Western Ontario, and has worked extensively in the area of climate change since 1993, including working for the Adaptation and Impacts Research Group of the Meteorological Service of Canada, Environment Canada (1995-2002). From 1998 to 2002 he was the scientific authority for an Environment Canada led multi-stakeholder study on atmospheric change in the Toronto-Niagara Region. He has published over 40 articles in scholarly journals and books, including co-editing a book on agricultural restructuring and sustainability, and was a contributor to the Canada Country Study, the first national assessment on climate change impacts and adaptation. Currently he is the co-lead author for the Ontario chapter of the 2007 national assessment on climate change impacts and adaptation. Dr. Chiotti has taught at various Universities across Canada (University of Guelph, Carleton University, The University of Lethbridge, and the University of Toronto), and currently represents Pollution Probe on over a dozen environment-related advisory boards and committees, including the Base metals Environmental Multi-stakeholder Advisory Group (BEMAG), the Clean Air Foundation, the Canadian Climate Impacts and Adaptation Network (Ontario), and the Environment and Food Committee of the Laidlaw Foundation.