Vanderberg (born November 12, 1940, in Scottsbluff, Nebraska) was a university professor.He held a Bachelor of Economics degree from the University of Wyoming, a Master's Degree in Economics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, a Master of Arts degree in Philosophy from the University of Southampton, and a PhD in Political Science from the University of Calgary.[https://web.archive.org/web/20041215182205/http://www.newsworld.cbc.ca/election97/ridings/251.html He came to Canada from England in 1969, and held dual Canadian-American citizenship. He has taught political studies at the University of Calgary and the University of Saskatchewan ("Calgary Herald", 20 January 1989), and was once an associate professor of Political Science and Economics at the University of Alberta. Since the 1990s, he had taught at Grant MacEwan Community College ("Edmonton Journal", 5 March 1997).