STEM for Global Resilience

Randy Saad

Randy Sa’d

Randy Sa’d is the Executive Director of REFOCUS, a ground-breaking, not-for-profit co-operative. With REFOCUS, Randy collaboratively developed the proprietary Enterprise Evolution approach and applied learning program which enables senior leaders to leverage the lens of sustainability to develop improved strategy and evolve management practices in response to accelerating global change. Randy also serves as the […]

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John Hirdes

John P. Hirdes

John P. Hirdes is Professor of Applied Health Sciences at the School of Public Health and Health Systems at the University of Waterloo. His primary areas of interest include geriatric assessment, mental health, health care and service delivery, case mix systems, quality measurement, health information management, and quantitative research methods. Working as the senior Canadian

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William White

William White

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.

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warren dodd

Warren Dodd

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

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Roy Brouwer

Roy Brouwer

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,

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John McLevey

John McLevey

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

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Shohini Ghose

Shohini Ghose

Shohini Ghose is a Professor of Physics and Computer Science and founding Director of the Centre for Women in Science at Wilfrid Laurier University. Her research focuses on quantum computation and communication, as well as gender issues in science.

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Steven Evans

Stephen Evans

Dr. Stephen G. Evans is interested in the occurrence and behavior of catastrophic landslides, landslide dams, glacial hazards, tsunami and other natural disasters, hazard assessment (including magnitude and frequency) and risk analysis. Recently, in his investigation of the 2011 Japan tsunami, he became interested in the architecture and behavior of urban damage systems. His research

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Lana Gonzalez Balyk

Lana Gonzalez Balyk

Lana Gonzalez Balyk is a Ph.D. Candidate in Global Governance with the Balsillie School of International Affairs at the University of Waterloo. Her research interests included critical migration and border studies, with a focus on gender. From an intersectional feminist framework, her dissertation examines how migration governance policies and practices shape the lived experiences and

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Tim Elcombe

Tim Elcombe

Tim Elcombe, Ph.D, is an Associate Professor and past Department Chair of Kinesiology & Physical Education at Wilfrid Laurier University. Broadly speaking, Dr. Elcombe’s scholarship uses a pragmatic normative lens to examine concepts and issues related to sport ethics, cultural and political aspects of sport, sport development and governance, and social impact through sport (and

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