2016 PRESIDENT (ELECTED PRESIDENT-ELECT IN 2015) Steve E. Hrudey, PhD, P.Eng., FEC, FCAE
Steve E. Hrudey is a retired University of Alberta professor and is currently principal of his own environmental risk consulting firm. Steve has been a member of APEGA for 45 years and an APEGA Permit Holder with his consulting firm for 34 years. He was born, raised, and initially educated in Edmonton and is now based in Canmore. Steve obtained his B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Alberta
on safe drinking water for First Nations; and serving the research advisory panel to the Walkerton Inquiry (2000–2002). His diverse, interdisciplinary career has provided Steve with a unique perspective on the role and responsibilities of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists in society. Steve and wife, Elizabeth, have two sons, both professional engineers (computer engineering, engineering physics), one working in Alberta and one in Boston, and a daughter, a pharmacist, currently working at the University of Amsterdam Medical School. In 2004, Steve co-authored with Elizabeth Safe Drinking Water — Lessons from Recent Outbreaks in Affluent Nations , the best-selling book ever for IWA Publishing London. In June 2014 they published a case-study sequel for frontline drinking water personnel, with the American Water Works Association, Denver. APEGA Activities • 2015-present, President-Elect and Member of APEGA Council Executive Committee • 2012–2015, Member of APEGA Council • 2013-2014, Acting Chair of APEGA Council Governance Committee • 2013-2014, Chair of APEGA Public Issues Committee • 2004–2006, Member of a subcommittee of the Practice Standards Committee to prepare the Guideline for Management of Risk in Professional Practice • 1995–1998, Member of the Environment Committee • 1990–1993, Member of a subcommittee of the Practice Standards Committee to prepare the first edition of Environmental Practice — A Guideline • Presenter of four technical seminars at branch meetings and APEGA venues Affiliations, Corporate or Community Service • President, Steve E. Hrudey & Associates Ltd, since 1981 • Professor Emeritus, University of Alberta, since 2008 • Member, Management Advisory Board, Alberta Water Research Institute, 2007–2009 • Chair, Environmental Appeals Board, 2005–2009 (Board Member, 1996–2009) • Member, Science Advisory Council, Public Health Agency of Canada, 2005–2007 • Associate Editor, Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, 1988–1992 • Presenter of more than 190 invited presentations to scientific, professional, and public interest groups in past 20 years
before an M.Sc. and PhD in Public Health Engineering from Imperial College, University of London. He was awarded a career academic degree of D.Sc. (Eng) from the University of London in 2002 and an honorary D.Sc. from the University of Alberta in 2012. He has been awarded the 1991 Berry Medal from the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering for significant contributions to environmental engineering in Canada, the 1995 Emerald Award for environmental research, the 2012 A.P. Black Award of the American Water Works Association (its top research award), the 2013 APEGA Summit Award for Research Excellence, and a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2006, the Society for Risk Analysis in 2007, the International Water Association in 2010, and the Canadian Academy of Engineering in 2014. He worked as an environmental regulator with B.C. and Environment Canada before joining the University of Alberta in 1975. Steve spent 13 years in the Department of Civil Engineering before moving to the Faculty of Medicine in 1988 to establish an interdisciplinary environmental health program (now the Division of Analytical and Environmental Toxicology). He spent 13 years as a cabinet-appointed member of the Alberta Environmental Appeals Board (EAB), the last four years as Chair. At the EAB, he served on 36 public hearing panels, 19 as panel chair. He has also served on 25 expert panels, eight as chair, including chairing a March 2014 international expert panel in Washington for the Water Research Foundation of Denver; serving on an expert management panel on risk, following the June 2013 flood, for Calgary City Council; chairing the Royal Society of Canada expert panel on environmental and health impacts of the oil sands industry (2009-2010); serving on a three-member expert panel conducting nine public hearings across Canada
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