An award-winning, Calgary-based author, editor and writer, Peter McKenzie-Brown has worked for several corporate clients and for industry and business publications. He has written many articles for energy-related magazines and was a coordinator and interviewer for the Petroleum History ...more

An award-winning, Calgary-based author, editor and writer, Peter McKenzie-Brown has worked for several corporate clients and for industry and business publications. He has written many articles for energy-related magazines and was a coordinator and interviewer for the Petroleum History Society’s Oil Sands Oral History Project. He began his writing career with the Reuters news agency in London, UK, in 1971. In Canada, he has worked for Amoco Canada, the Canadian Petroleum Association, and the Canadian branch of Gulf Oil. British by birth, he is American by upbringing and Canadian by choice. He has completed the Ironman Triathlon eleven times – twice in Hawaii, the other times in Penticton, B.C. His books include Footprints: The Evolution of Land Conservation and Reclamation in Alberta (2016, with Robert Bott and Graham Chandler); Barbecues, Booms and Blogs: Fifty Years of Public Relations in Calgary (2008; co-editor and contributor); In Balance: An Account of Alberta’s CA Profession (2000, with Stacy Philips); The Richness of Discovery: Amoco’s First Fifty Years in Canada (1998); and The Great Oil Age: The Petroleum Industry in Canada (1993, with Gordon Jaremko and David Finch.) In 2006, he contributed to Wikipedia a five-part series on the history of Canada’s petroleum industry. Prior to serving as a coordinator and interviewer for the Petroleum History Society’s Oil Sands Oral History Project, he was a recipient of that society’s lifetime achievement award.less