Johanna Wilkes, Ph.D. (she/her) is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow based out of Lakehead University. She also is a regional led for the FLOW Project and an advisory board member to the UNESCO Chair in Food, Biodiversity, and Sustainability Studies. Johanna focuses on state-led food systems transformations and the role of agroecological principles in this shift. […]
Fred Gorbet has extensive experience in public policy advice and formulation, particularly with regard to financial institutions and energy policy. Following a 25-year career in the Canadian public service, where he served as Director of Long-Term Policy for the International Energy Agency (IEA) in Paris, and as Deputy Minister of Finance for Canada, Mr. Gorbet
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Graham Curtis is a People and Organisation Development consultant with a background in public administration and change leadership in the International Development sector in the UK. His research and teaching interests include understanding social change and transformation from the perspective of complex responsive processes. Dr. Curtis is an associate lecturer on the MSc People and
Lola Cecchinel is a Research, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning professional with experience managing and advising programmes operating in conflict-affected environments. She worked five years for a consulting company across Afghanistan and West Africa and then joined the UK Government’s Stabilisation Unit as a Deployable Civilian Expert in late 2017. She has provided long-term advisory and
Armin Grunwald is a Full professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Technology at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany. He has been the director of the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis at KIT (ITAS) since 1999 and Director of the Office of Technology Assessment at the German Bundestag in Berlin since 2002. After
Trevor Swerdfager is Practitioner In Residence in the School of Environment and Resources Studies, Faculty of Environment at University of Waterloo. He joined the Faculty in 2020 after a 30-year career in the federal Public Service where he served in roles including Director General of the Canadian Wildlife Service in Environment Canada before moving to
Diana Fox Carney is an adviser to companies and investors that are seeking opportunities in the transition to a greener, more nature positive economy. She is a Senior Adviser on climate to growth equity fund, BeyondNetZero and to Africa investor, Helios Climate. She is also a Senior Advisor at geopolitics advisory firm, Eurasia Group. She began
Carrie Wright is a visiting scholar at Wilfrid Laurier University. She is interested in innovation in the public sector. Her research includes studying innovation practices and identifying barriers to innovation in public sector organizations and experimenting with innovation approaches in partnership with public sector groups using a ‘learning through doing’ methodology. Her recent projects range
Stephanie DeWitte-Orr is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Health Sciences and Biology at Wilfrid Laurier University. Her research focuses on innate antiviral immune responses, studying how cells detect when they are infected with viruses and how they defend themselves from virus infection. It is these defense mechanisms that her research program utilizes to
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Dr. Hayes directs and is Principal Technical Consultant for Petrel Robertson Consulting, Canada’s leading integrated petroleum geoscience consultancy. Dr. Hayes has more than 40 years of diverse professional experience. He has completed numerous major geoscience and multidisciplinary studies for companies, Crown corporations, and regulatory agencies, ranging from analyses of specific reservoir problems, to property evaluations,
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Patricia Greve is a political scientist who studies regional security governance, identity dynamics in security communities, transatlantic relations, and US and German foreign policy. Her work has been published in the Review of International Studies (on overlapping mechanisms of regional security governance; together with Emanuel Adler) and the Journal of International Relations and Development (on
