Denis Corr

Clean Air Hamilton

Denis is president of Corr Research (http://www.corr-research.com/) and Chair of Clean Air Hamilton (http://www.cleanair.hamilton.ca/).  His Ph.D. is in Physics and he has worked in all three of university, government and business.  He began and has remained involved with the U.N. award winning Hamilton Air Quality Initiative/Clean Air Hamilton process and the Hamilton Air Quality Task Force (2014).  Denis was also a Professor of Engineering Physics (part time) at McMaster University for thirteen years.  At the Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Denis led the environmental response to the Hagersville tire fire, the largest tire fire in the world until that time, and managed all environmental aspects of putting out the fire and subsequent cleanup. He is still very active in air monitoring and air quality policy development. On the basis of these experiences, he has developed a decision making process, CPPR - Content, Process, People and Respect, for use in complex environmental and other situations. 

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