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Christine Daly MSc PhD PBiol is an award-winning reclamation, sustainability, and community engagement specialist. She is the Associate Director of Institutional Commitments at the University of Calgary, where she is leading local campus engagement on advancing the Institutional Sustainability Strategy Action Plan (2025-2028) and national engagement on the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a Co-Chair for SDG Engagement at the Canadian hub of the UN Sustainability Development Solutions Network (SDSN Canada). In 2025, she was the Conference Chair for the 7th Annual Together | Ensemble, Canada’s premier conference for the SDGs, and served as an official delegate representing Canada at the United Nations High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development. Christine has two decades of experience leading innovation and system change in the oil sands mine closure and reclamation, including fen reclamation and reclamation of Pond 1 (now known as Wapisiw Lookout). During her PhD, Christine co-created a participatory and inclusive approach to mine reclamation and closure planning with Fort McKay First Nation co-researchers, called “co-reclamation.” Together, they developed intercultural planning tools and explored co-reclamation of the Fort McKay Traditional Territory in Treaty 8, northeastern Alberta, Canada, which is affected by oil sands activities. Christine continued to advance collaborative reclamation approaches with local communities as a Postdoctoral Associate at the University of Waterloo and now, as a Board Member of the Landform Design Institute.