Smart Prosperity Institute is a national research network and policy think tank based at the University of Ottawa. We deliver world-class research and work with public and private partners – all to advance practical policies and market solutions for a stronger, cleaner economy.

Our Vision: A stronger, cleaner economy that builds a better future for all Canadians. We are dedicated to realizing a thriving economy, healthy environment and high-quality of life, achieved through decoupling environmental harm from economic success.

Our Mission: We harness leading-edge thinking to advance innovation in policy and markets in pursuit of a greener, more competitive Canadian economy that works for people and the environment. We are working towards a Canada that boosts its competitiveness, innovation and environmental performance on pace with leading nations over the next decade, so that our country will become a global leader within a generation. 


Get to know Smart Prosperity Institute


Bianca Cecato

Postdoctoral Fellow

Meredith Martin

Senior Media Producer

Vasundhara Saravade

Postdoctoral Fellow

Malorie Bertrand

Director of Communications

Cara Stern

Senior Media Producer

Tej Heer

Senior Research Associate

Elizabeth Daigle

Research Associate

Caelan Welch

Research Associate

Jessica Pennington

Research Associate

Chinweizu Okeke

Research Associate

Olivia Richardson

Research Associate

Karina Lopez Ivich

Research Associate

Barb Swartzentruber

Senior Fellow

Aneesa Ally

Program Officer, PLACE Centre

Talha Awan

Research Associate

Karianne Blank

Designer

Ken Boessenkool

Senior Fellow

Mariana Carrillo

Coordinator, Research Partnerships

Hem Dholakia

Senior Research Associate

Stewart Elgie

Founder & Executive Director, Smart Prosperity Institute AND Jarislowsky Chair, Clean Economy and Innovation

Jesse Helmer

Senior Research Associate

Shahid Hossaini

Senior Research Associate

David Hughes

Special Advisor and Senior Fellow

Anik Islam

Senior Research Associate

Colleen Kaiser

Program Director, Governance and Innovation Policy and SPI Postdoctoral Fellow

Grace Kamba

Research Associate

Mykensie Kendrick

Research Associate

Sarah Krzysik

Communications Officer, PLACE Centre

Geoff McCarney

Senior Director of Research

Mike Moffatt

Executive in Residence

Katherine Monahan

Senior Fellow

Paige Olmsted

Conservation Finance Specialist

Mac Radburn

Manager, Communications and Outreach

Nicholas Renzetti

Research Associate

David Runnalls

Senior Fellow

Sushant

Research Associate

Ryan Tougas-Cooke

Senior Research Associate

Michael Twigg

Program Director, Land-use, Nature, Agriculture

Mike Wilson

Executive Director

Marena Winstanley

Senior Manager, Research Partnerships

Velma McColl

Co-chair Smart Prosperity Institute steering committee, Managing Principal at Earnscliffe Strategy Group

Andrew Heintzman

Andrew Heintzman is the President of Investeco Capital Corp, the first Canadian investment company to be exclusively focused on investing in environmental sectors.

Craig Stewart

Vice President, Insurance Bureau of Canada

Stewart Elgie

Founder & Executive Director, Smart Prosperity Institute AND Jarislowsky Chair, Clean Economy and Innovation

David Runnalls

Senior Fellow

Nancy Olewiler

Professor in, and Director of the School of Public Policy at Simon Fraser University.

Dr. Daina Mazutis

Associate Professor of Strategy at the University of Ottawa

Felix Fosu

Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Calgary

Dr. Amr ElAlfy

Assistant Professor at the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development (SEED) at the University of Waterloo

Anil Gogebakan

Ph.D. candidate in Economics at the University of Calgary

Sarah Ozog

Ph.D. student at Simon Fraser University

Jonathan Boron

Instructor and Ph.D. Candidate at Simon Fraser University’s School of Resource and Environmental Management

Clifford Atleo

Associate Professor, School of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University

Dr. Andréanne Doyon 

Associate Professor at the School of Resource and Environmental Management at Simon Fraser University

Wenshuang Yu

Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Calgary

Wiktor Adamowicz

Professor and Vice Dean in the Department of Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology, Faculty of Agricultural, Life & Environmental Sciences, University of Alberta

Sheri Andrews-Key

Chief Scientist & Founder, Innovative Climate Strategies and Adjunct Professor, University of Saskatchewan and UBC

Diane-Laure Arjaliès

Assistant Professor at Ivey Business School, Western University

Graeme Auld

Associate Professor, School of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University

Celine Bak

President of Analytica Advisors and Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation

Bipasha Baruah

Professor & Canada Research Chair in Global Women's Issues, The University of Western Ontario

Edward B. Barbier

Professor in the Department of Economics and Senior Scholar in the School of Global Environmental Sustainability, Colorado State University

Catherine Beaudry

Professor and Tier I Canada Research Chair on Creation, development and commercialisation of innovation at École Polytechnique de Montréal

Ken Belcher

Professor and Head, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, the University of Saskatchewan

Jean-Thomas Bernard

Visiting Professor, Institute of the Environment, University of Ottawa

Sophie Bernard

Associate Professor in Economics at Polytechnique Montréal

Steven Bernstein

Professor, Associate Chair and Graduate Director in the Department of Political Science and Co-Director of the Environmental Governance Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto

Laurel J. Besco

Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography and Institute for Management & Innovation, University of Toronto

Raimund Bleischwitz

Chair in Sustainable Global Resources and Director of The Bartlett School of Environment Energy & Resources at University College London

Paul Boothe

Professor Emeritus, Ivey Business School, Western University

Branko Boskovic

Assistant Professor in the Department of Marketing, Business Economics and Law at the Alberta School of Business at the University of Alberta

Peter Boxall

Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics in the Department of Rural Economy, Faculty of Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sciences at the University of Alberta

Ben Cashore

Professor, Director of the Program on Forest Policy and Governance, Director of the Governance, Environment, and Markets Initiative, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies

Nathalie Chalifour

Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law and Co-Director of the Centre for Environmental Law and Global Sustainability at uOttawa

Kai Chan

Professor in the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability at University of British Columbia

Jevan Cherniwchan

Assistant Professor in the Department of Marketing, Business Economics and Law, University of Alberta

Giovanni Circella

Director of the 3 Revolutions Future Mobility Program, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis

Jose Alejandro Coronado

Research Fellow at UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose

Michael Courey

Director of the London Poverty Research Centre and adjunct faculty member in the Department of Sociology at King’s University College

Tijs Creutzberg

Director of Assessments at the Council of Canadian Academies and a Senior Associate in the Innovation Policy Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto

Margaret J Dalziel

Associate Professor, Conrad Entrepeneurship and Technology Centre, University of Waterloo

Runa Das

Associate Professor at Royal Roads University

Evan Davies

Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Alberta

Jeremy F. de Beer

Professor at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law and a co-founding director of the Open African Innovation Research network, Open AIR.

Antoine Dechezleprêtre

Associate Professorial Research Fellow, London School of Economics and Political Science and Senior Economist, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Brett Dolter

Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Regina

David Driesen

Professor at the College of Law, Syracuse University

Paul Ekins

Professor of Resources and Environmental Policy and Director of the Institute for Sustainable Resources, University College London

Kent Fellows

Assistant Professor at The School of Public Policy, University of Calgary

Eli Fenichel

Associate Professor at Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies

Ben Filewod

Assistant Professorial Research Fellow, London School of Economics

Carolyn Fischer

Canada 150 Research Chair in Climate Economics, Innovation, and Policy, University of Ottawa Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future, Washington DC

Skylar Franke

Executive Director at the London Environmental Network

Lewis Fulton

Director of the Sustainable Transportation Energy Pathways, University of California, Davis

Elizabeth Glass Geltman

Associate Professor at the City University of New York, School of Public Health

Marcello Graziano

Associate Professor, Department of Management & International Business, Southern Connecticut State University and Research Fellow, University of Connecticut

George Greene

Institute of the Environment, University of Ottawa

Joel Gehman

Associate Professor of Business at the University of Alberta School of Business and Associate Director of the Canadian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility.

Jury Gualandris

Associate Professor in Operations Management and Sustainability at Ivey Business School, Western University

Kathryn J Harrison

Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, University of British Columbia

Richard Hawkins

Professor in the Department of Communication, Media and Film, and Senior Fellow at the Center for Innovation Studies, University of Calgary

Matthew Hoffmann

Professor, Political Science and Co-Director, Environment Governance Lab

Christina Hoicka

Canada Research Chair in Urban Planning for Climate Change at the University of Victoria

Nick Johnstone

HeadStructural Policy Division, Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry, OECD

Gordon R. Lambert

Suncor Sustainability Executive in Residence at the Ivey School of Business

Erick Lachapelle

Associate Professor of Political Science at l’Université de Montréal

Alex Latta

Associate Professor of Global Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University

Andrew Leach

Associate Professor at the Alberta School of Business at the University of Alberta, Energy and environmental economist

Deishin Lee

Associate Professor in Operations Management and Sustainability at Ivey Business School, Western University

Shawn Leroux

Associate Professor of Biology at Memorial University of Newfoundland

Richard G. Lipsey

Professor Emeritus, Economics Department, Simon Fraser University, Commissioner of the Canadian Ecofiscal Commission.

Diana Liverman

Professor of Geography, Environment and Development, University of Arizona

Patrick Lloyd-Smith

Assistant Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics Department, the University of Saskatchewan

Peter Loewen

Director of the School of Public Policy and Governance and an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto.

Giovanni Marin

Associate Professor in Applied Economics, University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy

Mariana Mazzucato

Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London (UCL), and Director of UCL's Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose

James R. Meadowcroft

Professor in both the School of Public Policy and Administration and in the Department of Political Science, Carleton University

Richard Morgenstern

Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future

Matto Mildenberger

Assistant Professor of Political Science at University of California Santa Barbara

Michal Miedzinski

Senior Research Associate at the UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources (ISR)

Heather Millar

Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of New Brunswick

Lucija Muehlenbachs

Assistant Professor,Department of Economics, University of Calgary

Brian Murray

Director, Duke University Energy Initiative

Peter Nicholson

Inaugural President, Council of Canadian Academies

Nouri Najjar

Assistant Professor of Business, Economics and Public Policy in the Ivey Business School at Western University

Nancy Olewiler

Professor in, and Director of the School of Public Policy at Simon Fraser University.

Martin Olszynski

Associate Professor at the University of Calgary's Faculty of Law

Maya Papineau

Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Carleton University

Tom Pederson

Executive Director of the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions at the University of Victoria

Peter Phillips

Distinguished Professor and Founding Director of the Johnson-Shoyama Center for the Study of Science and Innovation Policy at the University of Saskatchewan

André Plourde

Full Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Public Affairs at Carleton University

David Popp

Professor, Senior Research Associate at the Center for Policy Research, Carolyn Rapking Faculty Scholar in Public Administration and Policy, Maxwell School, Syracuse University

Barry Rabe

Professor of Public Policy in the Ford School and the School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan

Emmanuel Raufflet

Professor of Management at HEC Montréal

Leigh S Raymond

Professor of Political Science, Purdue University

Maureen Reed

Distinguished Professor and UNESCO Chair in Biocultural Diversity, Sustainability, Reconciliation and Renewal at the University of Saskatchewan

Kenneth Richards

Professor at the O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University

Nicholas Rivers

Canada Research Chair in Climate and Energy Policy at the University of Ottawa

Jonathan Rubin

Director of the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center and Professor of Economics, University of Maine

Charles Sabel

Maurice T. Moore Professor of Law at Columbia Law School

Stephan Schott

Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration at Carleton University

Gregor Semieniuk

Assistant Research Professor, Political Economy Research Institute, & Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst & Honorary Senior Research Associate at UCL's Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose

Blake Shaffer

Fulbright Scholar and Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University

Miguel Sioui

Associate Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University

Kerry Smith

Professor of environmental economics at the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University

Robert Smith

Senior Associate at International Institute for Sustainable Development and Principal at Midsummer Analytics

Andrew Sharpe

Founder and Executive Director of the Ottawa-based Centre for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS)

Stefan Staubli

Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary and an Affiliated Member at the Department of Economics at the University of Zurich

Leah Stokes

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of California Santa Barbara

Margaret Taylor

Project Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and Engineering Research Associate in Stanford University’s Precourt Energy Efficiency Center

Jason Thistlethwaite

Professor for the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development

Stephan Vachon

Director of the Centre for Environment and Sustainability at Western University

Brennan Vogel

Teaching Faculty at the University of Western Ontario Centre for Environment and Sustainability & Part Time Faculty at Kings University College

Francesco Vona

Senior Economist at Observatoire Français des Conjonctures Économiques of Sciences-Po, France

Marian L Weber

Chief Environmental Economist, BC Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy

Olaf Weber

Professor at the School for Environment, Enterprise and Development (SEED), Faculty of Environment, University of Waterloo.

Jennifer Winter

Associate Professor of the Energy and Environmental Policy research division at The School of Public Policy, University of Calgary

David A. Wolfe

Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto Mississauga and Co-Director of the Innovation Policy Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs.

Hendrik Wolff

Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Simon Fraser Unviersity.

Youpei Yan

Postdoctoral Associate at Yale University

Akio Yamazaki

Assistant Professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) and Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary

Hisham Zerriffi

Associate Professor of Energy in the Forest Resources Management department at the University of British Columbia

Tia Rebecca Driver

EEPRN Student Researcher, 2024-2025

Aleena Naseem

EEPRN Student Researcher, 2024-2025

Nubi Afolasade

EEPRN Student Researcher, 2024-2026

Michelina Aguanno

EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher, 2020-2023

Seyedmehdi (Dean) Ahmadi

EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher 2020-2021

Evan Arbuckle

EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher 2020-2021

Annie Arko

SPI Summer Student 2019

Eric Asare

EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Post-Doctoral Researcher, 2020-2021

Deven Azevedo

EEPRN Student Researcher, 2017-2018

Angela Barakat

SPI Research Fellow, 2018-2019

Soma Barsen

EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher 2021-2022

Justine Beaulé

SPI Summer Student, 2018

Michael Boisvert

EEPRN Student Researcher, 2019

Jacob Boucher

EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher, 2021

Robert Buchkowski

EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Post-Doctoral Researcher 2020-2023

Kate Cameron

EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher, 2021

Renato Chaves

EEPRN Student Researcher, 2018-2019

Celina Chen

EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher, 2020-2023

Ziqiao Chen

EEPRN Student Researcher, 2019-2020

Elliot Choi

EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher, 2020-2021

Nathan Lemphers

SPI Post-Doctoral Fellow

Catherine Christoffersen

SPI Research Fellow, 2019-2020

Ryan Cooke

SPI Research Fellow, 2019-2020

Connor Cosma

SPI Summer Student, 2018

Lauren Crumley

SPI Research Fellow, 2018-2019

Pedro Cybis

EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher, 2020-2021

Gabriel De Roche

EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher, 2021-2022

Christine Desrochers

EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher 2020-2021

Simon Dessureault

EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher, 2020-2021

John Driscoll

EEPRN Student Researcher, 2018-2019

Genevieve Donin

SPI Research Fellow, 2019-2020

Truzaar Dordi

EEPRN Student Researcher, 2017-2018

Alicia Entem

Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher, 2017-2018

Mackenzie Finkbeiner

SPI Research Fellow, 2019-2020

Felix Fosu

EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher 2020-2021

Shannon Fournier

EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher 2020-2021

Maya Gandhi

EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher, 2021-2022

Philippe Genois-Lefrançois

EEPRN Student Researcher, 2018-2019

Lauren Giandomenico

EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher, 2020-2021

Maimuna Hafiz

EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher 2020-2021

Beverley Hinterhoeller

SPI Research Fellow, 2019-2020

Melanie Issett

EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher, 2020-2023

Karina López Ivich

EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher 2021-2022

Philippe Kabore

EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher, 2018-2023

Colleen Kaiser

SPI Post-Doctoral Fellow, 2020-2021; SPI Pre-Doctoral Fellow, 2019-2020

Eashan Karnik

EEPRN Student Researcher, 2018-2019

Sanika Kulkarni

EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher 2020-2021

Jérôme Larivière

EEPRN Student Researcher 2019-2020

Renata Leonhardt

EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher, 2020-2021

Ruby Lin

EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher 2020-2021

Andrew Linton

SPI Research Fellow, 2019-2020

Jinan Liu

EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher 2020-2021

Shawn Liu

EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher, 2020-2021

Geoffrey Lonca

EEPRN Student Researcher, 2018-2019

Keith MacMaster

SPI Student Researcher 2018-2019

Lindsey MacMillan

SPI Research Fellow, 2020-2021

Baani Mann

EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher, 2020-2023

Kate Marland

EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher 2020-2021

Marjolaine Martel-Morin

EEPRN Student Researcher 2019-2020

Emma McGuire

SPI Research Fellow, 2017-2018

Maria-Louise McMaster

EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher, 2020-2021

Samantha McRae

EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher, 2021

Amylia Mesic

EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher 2021-2022

Chris Miljanich

EEPRN Student Researcher, 2018-2019

Miya Morris

Work-Study Student Researcher 2018-2020

Nouri Najjar

EEPRN Student Researcher, 2015-2016

Valentina Ofori

EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher 2020-2021

Paige Olmsted

EEPRN Student Researcher, 2018-2019

Sandeep Pai

EEPRN Student Researcher, 2018-2019

Sheena Parris

SPI Research Fellow, 2020-2021

Stefan U. Pauer

EEPRN Student Researcher, 2018-2019

Michaela Pedersen-Macnab

EEPRN Student Researcher 2019-2021

Ryan Planche

EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher, 2021 - 2023

Elizabeth Polk

EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher, 2021

Bryce Pratt

EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher 2020-2021

Meghdad Rahimian

EEPRN Student Researcher 2019-2021

Retaj Ramadan

EEPRN Student Researcher, 2019-2021

Nick Robelek

EEPRN Student Researcher, 2018-2019

Cameron Robertson-Gillis

SPI Research Fellow, 2021

Curtis Rollins

EEPRN Student Researcher, 2017-2018

Daniel Rosenbloom

EEPRN Student Researcher, 2017-2018

Jamie Sandison

EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher 2020-2021

Vasundhara Saravade

EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher, 2017-2023

Katarina Savic

EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher, 2020-2021

Ayushi Shah

SPI Research Fellow, 2019-2020

Michaela Sidloski

EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher 2021

Roberto Suppa

SPI Summer Student 2019

Natalie Sutt-Wiebe

SPI Research Fellow, 2019-2020

Fatemeh Tehranikia

EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher, 2021

Samuel Trachtman

EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher, 2020-2022

J.C. Vito

EEPRN Student Researcher, 2018-2019

Valeria Widjaja

EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher 2021

Diying Wu

SPI Work-Study Student, 2018-2019

Gloria Wu

EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher 2020-2021

Akio Yamazaki

EEPRN Student Researcher, 2016-2018; SPI Pre-Doctoral Fellow, 2018-2019

Kayla Young

EEPRN Student Researcher, 2019-2020

Yuxu Zhao

EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher, 2020-2021

Wiktor Adamowicz

Professor and Vice Dean in the Department of Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology, Faculty of Agricultural, Life & Environmental Sciences, University of Alberta

Stewart Elgie

Founder & Executive Director, Smart Prosperity Institute AND Jarislowsky Chair, Clean Economy and Innovation

Carolyn Fischer

Canada 150 Research Chair in Climate Economics, Innovation, and Policy, University of Ottawa Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future, Washington DC

Kathryn J Harrison

Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, University of British Columbia

James R. Meadowcroft

Professor in both the School of Public Policy and Administration and in the Department of Political Science, Carleton University

Nancy Olewiler

Professor in, and Director of the School of Public Policy at Simon Fraser University.

David A. Wolfe

Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto Mississauga and Co-Director of the Innovation Policy Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs.