David Wong Email & Phone Number

Vancouver born David Wong, began his career at the City of Vancouver's Engineering and Planning departments– on the team that helped transform the central business district into an internationally recognized urban live-work model. In 1991, he was a founding partner for one of Singapore’s largest architectural firms. A proponent of affordable housing and healthy communities, his background as a biologist has helped his office undertake biophilic design solutions– including some of Asia's new generation of green buildings; one of metro Vancouver’s first LEED Gold buildings; destination health & wellness resorts. • Steering Committee, Residential School National Monument, Parliament Hill, Ottawa • Unit Secretary, Pacific Unit 280, Army, Navy & Air Force Veterans • Province of BC Multiculturalism Advisory Council • Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Honorary Witness • Director, Pacific Unit 280, Army, Navy & Air Force Veterans • 2018 Vancouver Green Party city council candidate • 2017 BC Greens provincial election candidate; spokesperson for Housing & Affordability • Named as one of BC's “100 influential Chinese-Canadians” (Vancouver Sun) • Best selling Author, recipient of CALA book award (2013) • Recipient, QE II Diamond Jubilee medal (Community & Environmental Leadership) • Named as one of Vancouver's "Leading Lights in Green Design"​ (Vancouver Sun) • Advisor, David Suzuki Foundation (Climate Action Committee) • Advisor, Save The Frogs Foundation (California) • Vice President & Founding Director, Pacific Canada Heritage Ctr: Museum of Migration • Founding Director, Chief Dan George Ctr for Indigenous Studies • Founding Director, Chinese Canadian Historical Society of BC • Committee Member, Architects in the Schools (AIBC) • Founding Director, ExplorAsian: Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society • Founding Director, LiterAsian Festival • Founding member, Intern Architects committee, Architectural Institute of BC • Trustee, Dr Sun Yet-sen Chinese Classical Garden • Best of Vancouver List (Georgia Straight) • Canadian team: UNESCO world heritage status for ancestral clan Kaiping Diaolou • Director: Asian Canadian Writers' Workshop • Editor: RicePaper Magazine • Vice President: Science Undergraduate Society of UBC • Writer & Cartoonist, Ubyssey newspaper, UBCIn acknowledgement of his work with Indigenous peoples, David has been adopted into their families & clans, including the Haida, Sinx't (Washington) and Nisga'a (BC)