Olaf Weber is a University Research Chair in Sustainable Finance and professor at the School for Environment, Enterprise and Development (SEED), Faculty of Environment, University of Waterloo. His research interests focus on the connection between financial sector players, such as banks and sustainable development, and the link between sustainability and financial performance of enterprises. The […]
Dr. Carrie Mitchell is a specialist in environmental planning in cities. After completing her PhD in geography at the University of Toronto, she worked as a senior program officer at Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC), funding and managing a portfolio of projects on adaptation to climate change in South and Southeast Asia. Dr. Mitchell’s current research
Dr. Daniel Scott is a University Research Chair in Climate and Society in the Geography and Environmental Management as well as the Director of the Interdisciplinary Centre on Climate Change at the University of Waterloo (Canada). He has worked extensively in the human dimensions of climate change, particularly the global tourism sector and protected area
Marc Saner works on the governance of emerging technologies and the philosophical aspects of the science policy interface. He has a particular interest in how ethics and science are combined in risk management and regulation. He also teaches environmental ethics and various other components of environmental studies.
Stephen Quilley is Associate Professor in Social and Ecological Innovation in the Department of Environment and Resource Studies, and core faculty for the Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation and Resilience (WISIR). With a Ph.D. in economic sociology, Steve was previously a Senior Lecturer in Environmental Politics at Keele University (2006-2012), College Lecturer in Urban Sociology at
Dr. Steven Mock is lead researcher of the Ideological Conflict Project. He completed his Ph.D. in Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2009. He is a former chair of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN) and member of the editorial team of Nations and Nationalism. His
John McLevey is an Associate Professor in the Department of Knowledge Integration at the University of Waterloo, with cross-appointments to Sociology & Legal Studies and Geography & Environmental Management. John’s current SSHRC-funded research projects straddle several related areas, primarily: (1) the micro- and macro-level processes through which opinions, beliefs, identities, worldviews, and lifestyle preferences form
Randolph Mank is a global business executive and a three-time former Canadian ambassador, with over thirty years of experience in both the public and private sectors. He is currently President of MankGlobal Inc, supporting clients with business development, government relations, and representation services, while writing and speaking frequently on foreign affairs. In the private sector,
Jennifer Liu is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the School of Public Health and Health Systems at the University of Waterloo. She received her PhD in 2008 from the UC Berkeley – UC San Francisco joint program in Medical Anthropology. She works at the intersection of Science Studies and Medical Anthropology. Her
Dr. Craig R. Janes is a Professor and Director, School of Public Health and Health Systems at the University of Waterloo. Trained as a medical anthropologist (PhD UC Berkeley-San Francisco 1984) he is interested in and committed to social science approaches to public health and global health policy. Janes has research strengths in human-environment interactions,
As an undergraduate Dr. Michael Howard majored in Economics and received a BA with first class honours. He followed this with two graduate degrees: an MA in Politics and a PhD in Economics. Dr. Howard’s publications have been in the areas of economic theory, political economy, political theory and intellectual history. He has held four
Dr. Keith W. Hipel is University Professor of Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo, where he is Coordinator of the Conflict Analysis Group. He is President of the Academy of Science within the Royal Society of Canada, Senior Fellow of the Centre for International Governance Innovation, and Past-Chair of the Board of Governors
