He is a Rhodes Scholar and has obtained degrees in philosophy and mathematics from the University of Regina, philosophy, politics, and economics and philosophical theology from the University of Oxford, and an interdisciplinary Ph.D. awarded in 2008 through the Canadian Plains Studies Program at the University of Regina. His doctoral thesis contrasts university innovation for sustainable development in relation to commercialization and open source licensing strategies. He is co-coordinator of the Regional Centre of Expertise on Education for Sustainable Development in Saskatchewan (RCE Saskatchewan), one of 138 RCEs recognized globally by the United Nations University to help advance the U.N. Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) from 2005-2014 and the new Global Action Programme on ESD.