Biography

Ginger Gibson Macdonald is a Founding Director of the Firelight Group. She works as a mediator, negotiator and implementation coordinator for Indigenous communities and companies on land use and mining issues. Her research focuses on impact assessment, negotiation and implementation of Impact and Benefit Agreements. She has mediated many complex teams including land use and regional planning in the Ring of Fire (Ontario), resource development issues in Nunavik (including mining companies and Inuit), and mediated discussions in northern Alberta, among others. She is the co-author of The Community Toolkit for Negotiation of Impact and Benefit Agreements, published by the Gordon Foundation. Dr. Gibson has served as an independent reviewer to the Teck Resources Sustainability Reporting Initiative for the past four years, giving her in-depth knowledge of the corporate approach and values of Teck.