Jim Mountain has some forty years experience in Canada and internationally working as a practitioner, and instructor for the conservation and sustainability of places.

From 1998 to present he has served as Adjunct Professor and mentor to students with Carleton University’s Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism in the Conservation and Sustainability program.

He challenges students to work as a multidisciplinary team to undertake research and to develop design and conservation strategies for urban core areas, rural towns and regions, indigenous communities, and endangered places.

Since 2019 he has been a Faculty Associate with Willowbank School of Restoration Arts instructing students on approaches to Engaging Communities and Stakeholders in Heritage Conservation.

With the National Trust for Canada he helped establish Main Street revitalization projects across Western Canada, and “Regions” cultural heritage projects from Newfoundland and Labrador to Vancouver Island. He served as Director of Regeneration Projects 2014-2018, and is currently Senior Advisor to the Trust.