William R. White is currently a Senior Fellow at the C.D. Howe Institute in Toronto, Canada. Until April of 2018 he was the chairman of the Economic and Development Review Committee at the OECD in Paris. This committee carries on regular evaluations of the policies of both member countries and aspiring members of the OECD. […]
Warren Dodd is an Assistant Professor in the School of Public Health and Health Systems at the University of Waterloo. His research aims to understand and address the social and ecological determinants of global health and development. In particular, he is interested in how factors such as poverty, migration, food security, and climate change interact
Roy Brouwer is Professor in the Department of Economics and Executive Director of the University of Waterloo’s Water Institute. He obtained his MSc degree in Agricultural Economics from Wageningen Agricultural University in the Netherlands and his PhD degree in Environmental Economics from the University of East Anglia in the UK. Before joining the University of Waterloo,
Ashley Lebner is Associate Professor of Religion and Culture at Wilfrid Laurier University. She is currently completing a monograph, The Mystic of Friendship in Settler Amazonia, which explores the mystic relational dynamics that have animated the resettlement and politics of Southeast Amazonia since the late twentieth century. The book extends work that has appeared in venues including Current Anthropology (see especially
Nathan C. Funk, Ph.D., is Associate Professor and Chair of Peace and Conflict Studies at Conrad Grebel University College, the University of Waterloo, in Waterloo, Ontario. His research and writing address religious and cultural dimensions of conflict and peacemaking, and focus especially on the Middle Eastern context, “Islamic-Western” identity conflict, local empowerment in international peacebuilding,
Dr. Narendran Kumarakulasingam’s work explores the world-making capacities of marginalized actors in contexts of massive violence. One area of his scholarship examines the lived experience of atrocity in postcolonial societies as a site for rethinking globalized notions of redress, repair and transgression. A second, undertaken in collaboration with Mvuselelo Ngcoya (University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, Durban),
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Global Health Dr. Neil Arya is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Public Health Sciences at the University of Waterloo and in Health Sciences at Wilfrid Laurier University. He was the founding Director of the Global Health Office at Western University where he conducted research regarding the impact of international experiences on host communities
Heather Whiteside is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo. Heather studies the political economy of the state. She is currently working on grant-funded projects related to colonial era joint-stock royal charter companies in British North America (SSHRC Insight Development Grant) and public enterprise solutions for post-pandemic recoveries (SSHRC Insight Grant). In 2020, she received an
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
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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
