Adjunct Faculty
The following individuals currently are Adjunct Professors at the Centre for Environment.
JANE AMBACHTSHEER
Principal, Mercer Investment Consulting;
Member, Environmental Finance Advisory Committee, Centre for Environment;
Co-Instructor (Sessional Lecturer) of Centre for Environment graduate course ENV1707H Environmental Finance and Sustainable Investing.
Ms. Ambachtsheer leads Mercer's global responsible investment business, and consults to North American and international investors. She was a consultant to the United Nations and is a global advisor to the Carbon Disclosure Project.
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BRAD BASS (Ph.D.)
Researcher, Adaptation and Impacts Research Section, Climate Research Division, Environment Canada;
Instructor of Centre for Environment graduate course ENV 1004H Urban Sustainability.
Dr. Bass' research interests include simulating adaptation with anticipatory/emergent computing, green walls an green roofs, community energy systems planning and adaptations to climate change. For more information on his current research at the Centre for Environment, please visit AIRS Research page.
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SATYENDRA BHAVSAR (Ph.D.)
Research Scientist, Environmental Monitoring & Reporting Branch,
Ontario Ministry of the Environment.
Dr. Bhavsar is currently collaborating on a Centre for Environment research project studying Human Exposures To PFCs In Ontario Fish Caught Near Industrial Sources. His research interests include environmental behaviour of contaminants, monitoring, fate and transport in multimedia environment, exposure and risk assessment, mathematical modelling, and Identification and understanding of contaminant patterns
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SONIA LABATT (Ph.D.)
Member, Environmental Finance Advisory Committee, Centre for Environment.
For her doctoral research at the University of Toronto, Dr. Labatt examined corporate response patterns to environmental issues. She has co-authored (with Rodney White) two books Environmental Finance and Carbon Finance: The Financial Implications of Climate Change (John Wiley & Sons, 2002 and 2007).
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SUSAN McGEACHIE
Manager, Sustainability and Climate Change, Deloitte;
Member, Environmental Finance Advisory Committee, Centre for Environment;
Co-Instructor (Sessional Lecturer) of Centre for Environment graduate course ENV1707H Environmental Finance and Sustainable Investing.
Ms. McGeachie develops sustainability-related governance and management models for clients with Deloitte's Sustainability and Climate Change practice. Her experience includes developing corporate sustainability strategies and change management models, and analysing the environmental, social and governance performance of large cap stocks.
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PAUL MULDOON
Vice Chair, Environmental Review Tribunal;
Instructor (Sessional Lecturer) of Centre for Environment graduate and undergraduate course ENV1701H Environmental Law /ENV422H Environmental Law.
Mr. Muldoon is the Vice-Chair at the Environmental Review Tribunal, a body that adjudicates appeals, applications and referrals under 12 statutes. Prior to his appoinment, he was the Executive Director at the Canadian Environmental Law Association. He has graduate degrees from McMaster University and McGill University.
His interest are in Great Lakes legal and policy regime; regulation of toxic substances; access to justice and environmental justice issues, international environmental law, particularly relating to water, toxic substances and human rights. He has co-written two books, An Introduction to Environmental and Policy in Canada (Emond Montgomery Press, 2009) and A Guide to Appeals before Environmental Tribunals in Canada (with Jerry DeMarco, LexisNexis Canada, forthcoming).