Founding Principal of Southern Harbour Ltd, based in Toronto, Alec was previously the Resilience & Security leader at DIALOG, before which he served 25 years in the British Royal Engineers. A graduate of the University of Edinburgh, the Royal School of Military Engineering and the University of Toronto, he specialised over the last 30 years in fortifications and infrastructure development, which he practised around the World, He is an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto Centre for Resilience of Critical Infrastructure, where he focuses on operational risks and resilience of complex infrastructure systems and their socioeconomic influence. He speaks internationally on infrastructure risk and resilience and is past chair of the BOMA Toronto climate change resilience committee. Author of numerous books, articles and a director of Rethink Sustainability Initiative, he is a Principal of the Register of Security Engineers and Specialists.