Pablo Rodriguez, M.Env.Sc, M.W.S

Pablo is a Senior Climate Resiliency Specialist with the Climate Risk Institute. Pablo has gained academic and professional experience at the intersection of climate change, sustainable development, and water resources management in Latin America, Europe and Canada. He has worked with governments, non-profit organizations, the United Nations and other international cooperation agencies. In the Canadian…

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Vivian Forssman

Vivian Forssman works at the nexus of climate change capacity-building, applying her experience in learning design, digital knowledge management, web and learning management platforms, and social media to address skills gap challenges in the climate crisis. Her most recent accomplishment was program management of the Adaptation Learning Network, a project of the Resilience by Design…

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Dr. Robin Cox, PhD

Dr. Robin Cox advances leadership in climate and disaster resilience. Drawing on design thinking and open-learning approaches, Robin is cultivating climate action leadership through education, research, and advocacy. Her work includes the design and implementation of an innovative open-learning Graduate program – the M.A. in Climate Action Leadership (Royal Roads University- RRU) included modular components…

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Megan Symonds, BSc, MCC

Megan is a Climate Change Adaptation Analyst with the Climate Risk Institute. She recently graduated from the Master of Climate Change program at the University of Waterloo; and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from Wilfrid Laurier University. Megan is fascinated by the complex problem that is climate change and strives to piece…

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Samantha Page, MSc.

As a Senior Climate Resiliency Specialist with the Climate Risk Institute, Samantha leads and supports projects and initiatives designed to advance sectoral, municipal, provincial/territorial, national, and international efforts on climate change risk, resiliency planning, implementation, and capacity building. She has over 10 years of multi-sector experience managing and implementing climate adaptation projects and policies in…

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Webinar: Risk and Return on Investment Tool (RROIT)

Moderator: Kirsten MacMillan, B.A.Sc., B.A., E.I.T., Climate and Engineering Analyst, Climate Risk Institute (CRI) Presenters: Christine Zimmer, M.Sc (Eng), P.Eng. Chief Specialist, Watershed Projects Division, Credit Valley Conservation Authority (CVC) Kerri Robinson, P.Eng, Water Resources Engineer, EOR Description: The Risk and Return on Investment Tool (RROIT) is a multi-flood hazard decision-support tool that helps municipalities,…

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Christine Zimmer

Christine Zimmer, M.Sc.(Eng.), P.Eng., is the manager of water protection and restoration for CVC. She is responsible for developing tools, guidance documents, and providing assistance to stakeholders implementing LID practices in both new and existing urban areas. Zimmer and her team are also responsible for in-stream real-time water quality monitoring and monitoring of innovative stormwater…

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Anne Wiles

Anne Wiles, PhD. Senior Analyst, came to RSI through her interests in public and institutional attitudes to risk and complex technologies. After time as writer and editor with federal government, and with a couple of degrees in English literature, she became interested in the different ways in which people interpret events, and scientific explanations for…

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Greg Paoli

Greg Paoli, MASc, BASc. Principal Risk Scientist, COO. Risk Sciences International, holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering (1991) and a Master’s Degree in Systems Design Engineering (1993). Early in his career at Waterloo’s Institute for Risk Research as Research Manager, his work covered climate change impacts on permafrost, the use of software to…

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