As innovation & strategy manager at CLIMAtlantic, Stephanie strives to center reconciliation, community-building, and systems change in their work. Centering “disruptive kindness” has given meaning and purpose to their Chemical Engineering degree, MBA, and ongoing PhD studies.

Executive Director of Ouranos since 2013, Alain Bourque joined the organization at its inception in 2001 to set up the program on vulnerabilities, impacts and adaptations, which has enabled the completion of more than 200 research projects, all applied to the risks and opportunities related to climate change in Quebec.

Before becoming Executive Director at CLIMAtlantic, Dr. Dietz worked in biodiversity conservation, as ecosystem scientist, and as consultant. Her formal education has given her a science-based understanding of the world, supplemented by her deep caring for nature. She lives as white settler on unceded Mi’kmaw territory in Siknikt (Sackville, NB).

Before becoming Executive Director at CLIMAtlantic, Dr. Dietz worked in biodiversity conservation, as ecosystem scientist, and as consultant. Her formal education has given her a science-based understanding of the world, supplemented by her deep caring for nature. She lives as white settler on unceded Mi’kmaw territory in Siknikt (Sackville, NB).

Dr. Joel Finnis is a climatologist with Memorial University of Newfoundland’s Department of Geography. His research interests include climate adaptation, marine hazards, and weather risk communication.

Carlos Ruiz-Garvia leads the UNFCCC Adaptation Committee Unit and has 14 years with UN Climate Change. He previously directed Regional Collaboration Centres and the Global Innovation Hub. With a Ph.D. in Agriculture and an M.Sc. in Forestry, he has worked with Fundación Chile, FAO, and Assurance Services International, among others.

Catherine is a social scientist whose research examines how people-nature relations take shape, become understood, and are contested in everyday life, and how such relations connect with governance efforts at various scales. Recent work orients around: urban natures, agriculture and food, discard and waste.