BSc (University of British Columbia) PhD (University of California, Berkeley).

Associate Faculty, Master of Arts in Environmental Education and Communication and Master of Arts/Master of Science in Environment and Management programs.

Pille is a systems ecologist who has specialized in the integration and explanation of complex concerns for domain specialists, policy makers, students, and the public. She acted as the Director of Environmental Literacy with an international consulting firm (ESSA Technologies Ltd.) where she conducted integrative projects on Adaptive Environmental Management with concerns ranging from fisheries, to land use management and climate change.

Pille designed and co-authored the first State of Environment report for B.C., and developed public school curricula on ecology. Over the last decade she has shifted her focus to cybernetics, and has been writing papers and books concerning the nature of complex systems and human cognition, and the practical applications of this to the multifaceted relations between humans and the biosphere. She has taught at the University of British Columbia and is currently teaching at Royal Roads. After 6 years as President and Past President of the American Society of Cybernetics, she remains active with the society in organizing conferences and acting as editor of "Cybernetics and Human Knowing" as well as "Constructivist Foundations" .