Geoff Stiles is an Ottawa-based consultant on climate change, carbon finance and energy policy. He spent 23 years living and working in southern Africa, during which he canoed on the Kavango River and camped in the Okavango Delta many times, also driving across the Caprivi Strip near the areas where Recon is currently drilling for oil. He maintains close personal and professional ties with colleagues in that part of the world, and is currently co-authoring a book on Carbon Finance in South Africa.