Andrew

Andrew Ramlo is a prominent demographer, urbanist, and planning consultant. As Director of Urban Futures Incorporated, Andrew carried out strategic management assignments for a wide range of private and public sector clients. Andrew has worked with many of Canada’s leading developers, investors, and retailers as well as public sector clients, including many of Canada’s most rapidly changing municipalities, public agencies and crown corporations. These assignments have included a wide range of topics ranging from labour force, human resource and membership management to external market analyses of demographic and economic growth and change.

Andrew is also a Director of the Vancouver-based Urban Futures Institute. In this capacity he has been a contributing author to over 40 of the Institute’s research reports and participated in many of its public presentations. Research topics of note include: The Context for Change: Demographics, Life Cycles, Economics, and the Lower Mainland of British Columbia Over the Next Four Decades, Changing People, Changing Participation: Demographic and Behavioural Trends as a Context for the Future of the Canada Pension Plan, 2001 to 2051 and A Decade of Jobs and Pay in Canada: A Perspective on Canada's National and Regional Economies.

Andrew has a profound ability to relay difficult material with enthusiasm and clarity. He has become a frequent voice in the local media and his presentations are known to be informative, animated and lively. Recently, he has made presentations to The Pacific Northwest Administrators Academy, The Mortgage Investment Association of British Columbia, The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver, The International Council of Shopping Centers, and Smart Growth BC.

Andrew is a member of the Planning Institute of British Columbia (PIBC) and has formerly held a position on PIBC Council. He has organized and taught courses for both UBC and Simon Fraser University (SFU), in addition to providing ongoing workshops and seminars for programs at the British Columbia Institute of Technology and SFU’s City Program.

Andrew’s focus is on the dimensions of change, be they demographic, social, economic, or environmental in our industries, institutions, and communities, and on the development of strategies to address the upcoming challenges and opportunities we will face over the coming decades.