Jim Stephenson is a computer consultant who served as a Green Party candidate in BC in the 2006 and 2008 federal elections. In December 2006, he travelled to Nashville, Tenn. to train with Al Gore to present An Inconvenient Truth slide show. Since then, he has presented the show to 50 groups. His involvement in environmental issues dates back to the 1970s, when he worked at the Westwater Research Centre at the University of BC and edited a book about applying economic incentives to control pollution.

Jim's past experience includes First Nations economic development (Haida and Cowichan bands), and projects for BC Hydro, BC Gas, and WorkSafe BC. He has also consulted for corporate clients in the U.S., the U.K., Australia, Singapore, and Hong Kong. As a professor of business at UBC and Simon Fraser University, Jim taught courses in policy analysis and information systems. He has a B.S. in electrical engineering and a joint PhD in business and economics from Stanford University.

In the 1980s, Jim was president of Stephenson Software Inc., which developed the VP Planner spreadsheet and database program, sold around the world and translated into seven languages. In the mid-90s, he was founding president of the North Vancouver Elementary Band & Strings Parents' Association, which helped to save the instrumental music programs in North Vancouver elementary schools. A member and past president of the North Shore Unitarian Church, he has been married for 44 years and has two sons.