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Director of Communications
Research Associate
Senior Fellow
Research Associate
Designer
Senior Fellow
Coordinator, Research Partnerships
Senior Research Associate
Founder & Chair, Smart Prosperity Institute and Jarislowsky Chair, Clean Economy and Innovation, University of Ottawa
Senior Research Associate
Special Advisor and Senior Fellow
Senior Research Associate
Program Director, Governance and Innovation Policy and SPI Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Associate
Senior Director of Research
Executive in Residence
Senior Fellow
Conservation Finance Specialist
Manager, Communications and Outreach
Senior Fellow
Senior Research Associate
Program Director, Land-use, Nature, Agriculture
Fellow
Executive Director
Director, Research Partnerships
Co-chair Smart Prosperity Institute steering committee, Managing Principal at Earnscliffe Strategy Group
Andrew Heintzman is the President of Investeco Capital Corp, the first Canadian investment company to be exclusively focused on investing in environmental sectors.
Vice President, Insurance Bureau of Canada
Founder & Chair, Smart Prosperity Institute and Jarislowsky Chair, Clean Economy and Innovation, University of Ottawa
Senior Fellow
Professor in, and Director of the School of Public Policy at Simon Fraser University.
Associate Professor at the School of Resource and Environmental Management at Simon Fraser University
Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Calgary
Associate Professor of Strategy at the University of Ottawa
Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Calgary
Assistant Professor at the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development (SEED) at the University of Waterloo
Ph.D. candidate in Economics at the University of Calgary
Ph.D. student at Simon Fraser University
Instructor and Ph.D. Candidate at Simon Fraser University’s School of Resource and Environmental Management
Associate Professor, School of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University
Professor and Vice Dean in the Department of Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology, Faculty of Agricultural, Life & Environmental Sciences, University of Alberta
Chief Scientist & Founder, Innovative Climate Strategies and Adjunct Professor, University of Saskatchewan and UBC
Assistant Professor at Ivey Business School, Western University
Associate Professor, School of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University
President of Analytica Advisors and Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation
Professor & Canada Research Chair in Global Women's Issues, The University of Western Ontario
Professor in the Department of Economics and Senior Scholar in the School of Global Environmental Sustainability, Colorado State University
Professor and Tier I Canada Research Chair on Creation, development and commercialisation of innovation at École Polytechnique de Montréal
Professor and Head, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, the University of Saskatchewan
Visiting Professor, Institute of the Environment, University of Ottawa
Associate Professor in Economics at Polytechnique Montréal
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
Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography and Institute for Management & Innovation, University of Toronto
Chair in Sustainable Global Resources and Director of The Bartlett School of Environment Energy & Resources at University College London
Professor Emeritus, Ivey Business School, Western University
Assistant Professor in the Department of Marketing, Business Economics and Law at the Alberta School of Business at the University of Alberta
Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics in the Department of Rural Economy, Faculty of Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sciences at the University of Alberta
Professor, Director of the Program on Forest Policy and Governance, Director of the Governance, Environment, and Markets Initiative, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law and Co-Director of the Centre for Environmental Law and Global Sustainability at uOttawa
Professor in the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability at University of British Columbia
Assistant Professor in the Department of Marketing, Business Economics and Law, University of Alberta
Director of the 3 Revolutions Future Mobility Program, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis
Research Fellow at UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose
Director of the London Poverty Research Centre and adjunct faculty member in the Department of Sociology at King’s University College
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
Associate Professor, Conrad Entrepeneurship and Technology Centre, University of Waterloo
Associate Professor at Royal Roads University
Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Alberta
Professor at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law and a co-founding director of the Open African Innovation Research network, Open AIR.
Associate Professorial Research Fellow, London School of Economics and Political Science and Senior Economist, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Regina
Professor at the College of Law, Syracuse University
Professor of Resources and Environmental Policy and Director of the Institute for Sustainable Resources, University College London
Assistant Professor at The School of Public Policy, University of Calgary
Associate Professor at Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
Assistant Professorial Research Fellow, London School of Economics
Canada 150 Research Chair in Climate Economics, Innovation, and Policy, University of Ottawa Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future, Washington DC
Executive Director at the London Environmental Network
Director of the Sustainable Transportation Energy Pathways, University of California, Davis
Associate Professor at the City University of New York, School of Public Health
Associate Professor, Department of Management & International Business, Southern Connecticut State University and Research Fellow, University of Connecticut
Institute of the Environment, University of Ottawa
Associate Professor of Business at the University of Alberta School of Business and Associate Director of the Canadian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility.
Associate Professor in Operations Management and Sustainability at Ivey Business School, Western University
Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, University of British Columbia
Professor in the Department of Communication, Media and Film, and Senior Fellow at the Center for Innovation Studies, University of Calgary
Professor, Political Science and Co-Director, Environment Governance Lab
Canada Research Chair in Urban Planning for Climate Change at the University of Victoria
HeadStructural Policy Division, Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry, OECD
Suncor Sustainability Executive in Residence at the Ivey School of Business
Associate Professor of Political Science at l’Université de Montréal
Associate Professor of Global Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University
Associate Professor at the Alberta School of Business at the University of Alberta, Energy and environmental economist
Associate Professor in Operations Management and Sustainability at Ivey Business School, Western University
Associate Professor of Biology at Memorial University of Newfoundland
Professor Emeritus, Economics Department, Simon Fraser University, Commissioner of the Canadian Ecofiscal Commission.
Professor of Geography, Environment and Development, University of Arizona
Assistant Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics Department, the University of Saskatchewan
Director of the School of Public Policy and Governance and an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto.
Associate Professor in Applied Economics, University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy
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
Professor in both the School of Public Policy and Administration and in the Department of Political Science, Carleton University
Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future
Assistant Professor of Political Science at University of California Santa Barbara
Senior Research Associate at the UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources (ISR)
Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of New Brunswick
Assistant Professor,Department of Economics, University of Calgary
Director, Duke University Energy Initiative
Inaugural President, Council of Canadian Academies
Assistant Professor of Business, Economics and Public Policy in the Ivey Business School at Western University
Professor in, and Director of the School of Public Policy at Simon Fraser University.
Associate Professor at the University of Calgary's Faculty of Law
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Carleton University
Executive Director of the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions at the University of Victoria
Distinguished Professor and Founding Director of the Johnson-Shoyama Center for the Study of Science and Innovation Policy at the University of Saskatchewan
Full Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Public Affairs at Carleton University
Professor, Senior Research Associate at the Center for Policy Research, Carolyn Rapking Faculty Scholar in Public Administration and Policy, Maxwell School, Syracuse University
Professor of Public Policy in the Ford School and the School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan
Professor of Management at HEC Montréal
Professor of Political Science, Purdue University
Distinguished Professor and UNESCO Chair in Biocultural Diversity, Sustainability, Reconciliation and Renewal at the University of Saskatchewan
Professor at the O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University
Canada Research Chair in Climate and Energy Policy at the University of Ottawa
Director of the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center and Professor of Economics, University of Maine
Maurice T. Moore Professor of Law at Columbia Law School
Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration at Carleton University
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
Fulbright Scholar and Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University
Associate Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University
Professor of environmental economics at the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University
Senior Associate at International Institute for Sustainable Development and Principal at Midsummer Analytics
Founder and Executive Director of the Ottawa-based Centre for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS)
Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary and an Affiliated Member at the Department of Economics at the University of Zurich
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of California Santa Barbara
Project Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and Engineering Research Associate in Stanford University’s Precourt Energy Efficiency Center
Professor for the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development
Director of the Centre for Environment and Sustainability at Western University
Teaching Faculty at the University of Western Ontario Centre for Environment and Sustainability & Part Time Faculty at Kings University College
Senior Economist at Observatoire Français des Conjonctures Économiques of Sciences-Po, France
Chief Environmental Economist, BC Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy
Professor at the School for Environment, Enterprise and Development (SEED), Faculty of Environment, University of Waterloo.
Associate Professor of the Energy and Environmental Policy research division at The School of Public Policy, University of Calgary
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.
Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Simon Fraser Unviersity.
Postdoctoral Associate at Yale University
Assistant Professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) and Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary
Associate Professor of Energy in the Forest Resources Management department at the University of British Columbia
EEPRN Student Researcher, 2024-2025
EEPRN Student Researcher, 2024-2025
EEPRN Student Researcher, 2024-2026
EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher, 2020-2023
EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher 2020-2021
EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher 2020-2021
SPI Summer Student 2019
EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Post-Doctoral Researcher, 2020-2021
EEPRN Student Researcher, 2017-2018
SPI Research Fellow, 2018-2019
EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher 2021-2022
SPI Summer Student, 2018
EEPRN Student Researcher, 2019
EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher, 2021
EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Post-Doctoral Researcher 2020-2023
EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher, 2021
EEPRN Student Researcher, 2018-2019
EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher, 2020-2023
EEPRN Student Researcher, 2019-2020
EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher, 2020-2021
SPI Post-Doctoral Fellow
SPI Research Fellow, 2019-2020
SPI Research Fellow, 2019-2020
SPI Summer Student, 2018
SPI Research Fellow, 2018-2019
EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher, 2020-2021
EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher, 2021-2022
EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher 2020-2021
EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher, 2020-2021
EEPRN Student Researcher, 2018-2019
SPI Research Fellow, 2019-2020
EEPRN Student Researcher, 2017-2018
Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher, 2017-2018
SPI Research Fellow, 2019-2020
EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher 2020-2021
EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher 2020-2021
EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher, 2021-2022
EEPRN Student Researcher, 2018-2019
EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher, 2020-2021
EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher 2020-2021
SPI Research Fellow, 2019-2020
EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher, 2020-2023
EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher 2021-2022
EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher, 2018-2023
SPI Post-Doctoral Fellow, 2020-2021; SPI Pre-Doctoral Fellow, 2019-2020
EEPRN Student Researcher, 2018-2019
EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher 2020-2021
EEPRN Student Researcher 2019-2020
EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher, 2020-2021
EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher 2020-2021
SPI Research Fellow, 2019-2020
EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher 2020-2021
EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher, 2020-2021
EEPRN Student Researcher, 2018-2019
SPI Student Researcher 2018-2019
SPI Research Fellow, 2020-2021
EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher, 2020-2023
EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher 2020-2021
EEPRN Student Researcher 2019-2020
SPI Research Fellow, 2017-2018
EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher, 2020-2021
EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher, 2021
EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher 2021-2022
EEPRN Student Researcher, 2018-2019
Work-Study Student Researcher 2018-2020
EEPRN Student Researcher, 2015-2016
EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher 2020-2021
EEPRN Student Researcher, 2018-2019
EEPRN Student Researcher, 2018-2019
SPI Research Fellow, 2020-2021
EEPRN Student Researcher, 2018-2019
EEPRN Student Researcher 2019-2021
EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher, 2021 - 2023
EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher, 2021
EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher 2020-2021
EEPRN Student Researcher 2019-2021
EEPRN Student Researcher, 2019-2021
EEPRN Student Researcher, 2018-2019
SPI Research Fellow, 2021
EEPRN Student Researcher, 2017-2018
EEPRN Student Researcher, 2017-2018
EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher 2020-2021
EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher, 2017-2023
EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher, 2020-2021
SPI Research Fellow, 2019-2020
EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher 2021
SPI Summer Student 2019
SPI Research Fellow, 2019-2020
EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher, 2021
EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher, 2020-2022
EEPRN Student Researcher, 2018-2019
EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher 2021
SPI Work-Study Student, 2018-2019
EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher 2020-2021
EEPRN Student Researcher, 2016-2018; SPI Pre-Doctoral Fellow, 2018-2019
EEPRN Student Researcher, 2019-2020
EEPRN and Greening Growth Partnership Student Researcher, 2020-2021
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Professor and Vice Dean in the Department of Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology, Faculty of Agricultural, Life & Environmental Sciences, University of Alberta
Founder & Chair, Smart Prosperity Institute and Jarislowsky Chair, Clean Economy and Innovation, University of Ottawa
Canada 150 Research Chair in Climate Economics, Innovation, and Policy, University of Ottawa Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future, Washington DC
Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, University of British Columbia
Professor in both the School of Public Policy and Administration and in the Department of Political Science, Carleton University
Professor in, and Director of the School of Public Policy at Simon Fraser University.
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.
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