STEM for Global Resilience

Richard Florizone

Richard Florizone

Dr. Richard Florizone is President and CEO of the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) and President Emeritus of Dalhousie University. Originally from Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Richard has held senior roles with the Boston Consulting Group, Cambridge University, Bombardier Aerospace, the International Finance Corporation, and the University of Saskatchewan. He currently serves as a Council […]

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Daniel Kammen

Daniel Kammen

Dr. Daniel Kammen is the James and Katherine Lau Distinguished Professor of Sustainability at the University of California, Berkeley, with parallel appointments in the Energy and Resources Group (where he serves as Chair), the Goldman School of Public Policy (where he directs the Environmental Policy Center), and the department of Nuclear Engineering. He was appointed

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Fred Gorbet

Frederick W. Gorbet, O.C.

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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Armin Grunwald

Armin Grunwald

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

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Diana Fox Carney

Diana Fox Carney

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

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Carrie Wright

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

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Stephanie DeWitte-Orr

Stephanie DeWitte-Orr

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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jeremy hunsinger

Jeremy Hunsinger

Jeremy Hunsinger focuses on the Internet and new technology. His specific research engages the politics of knowledge and the relations of governance around technologies. He is an Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. He has published extensively and co-edited several major projects including two volumes of the International Handbook of Internet Research(Springer),

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Karim S Karim

Karim S Karim

Karim S Karim (PhD, PEng, MBA) is the Executive Director of the Center for Bioengineering and Biotechnology and a Professor in Engineering at the University of Waterloo. He has raised more than $15M in research grant funding, trained over 40 PhD and MASc students, has co-authored 250+ publications and 50+ patents. He is also a

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John Hancock

John Hancock

Dr. Hancock examines the self-adaptive, self-organizing nature of the global economy, with a focus on the way new technologies are reinforcing and accelerating this dynamic.

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Fahkri Karray

Fahkri Karray

Fahkri Karray is a Research Chair Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and holds the Loblaws Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence. He is the Co-Director of the University of Waterloo Artificial Intelligence Institute (waterloo.ai). Professor Karray’s research interests are in the areas of operational artificial intelligence, cognitive machines, natural human-machine interaction, autonomous

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Florian Kerschbaum

Florian Kerschbaum

Florian Kerschbaum is an associate professor in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo (since 2017) and Director of the Waterloo Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute (since 2018). He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (2010) and a master’s degree from Purdue University (2001).

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