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Dr. John Robinson

Professor and Presidential Advisor on Environment, Climate Change and Sustainability, University of Toronto

John Robinson is a Professor at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy and the School of the Environment at the University of Toronto, where he is Presidential Advisor on the Environment, Climate Change and Sustainability. Professor Robinson’s research focuses on sustainable buildings, neighbourhoods, and cities; climate change mitigation, adaptation and sustainability; participatory backcasting and scenario analysis; transdisciplinary knowledge co-production; sustainability transitions and transformations; art and sustainability; the role of the university in sustainability transitions; and the history and philosophy of sustainability.

Dr. Erica Smithwick

Distinguished Professor, Director of The Penn State Climate Consortium Pennsylvania State University

Dr. Erica Smithwick is a Distinguished Professor of Geography and Director of the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute at Penn State University. She is also an Associate Director of the Institute of Energy and the Environment. Smithwick leads the Penn State Climate Consortium that aims to bring together interdisciplinary researchers in partnership with society to innovate climate solutions. Trained as a landscape and ecosystem ecologist, her work aims to support sustainable land management decision-making under climate change, with particular focus on forest resilience to wildfire and natural carbon sequestration strategies. She has worked extensively across the U.S., including in the Mid-Atlantic, the Rocky Mountains, the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, and has many past or ongoing research projects in Africa. An overarching thread of her research is the use of trans-disciplinary partnerships to identify solutions to complex environmental challenges.

Dr. Edmundo Molina Pérez

Research Professor, Tec de Monterrey

Edmundo Molina Pérez (Ph.D. Pardee RAND Graduate School) is research associate professor at the School of Government and Public Transformation of Tec of Monterrey. He has led various research projects focused on developing new computational methods for studying socio-technological systems, and the use of Data Science methods for supporting decision analysis under conditions of deep uncertainty. He currently leads applied research work on Mexico's water and energy sectors, developing new simulation models and assisting stakeholders in decision making processes.

Dr. Marcus Taylor (moderator)

Professor, Queens University

Dr. Marcus Taylor is Professor and Head of the Department of Global Development Studies at Queen’s University, Canada. His work on climate change adaptation and rural development has been published widely, including The Political Ecology of Climate Change Adaptation (Routledge, 2015). He has served as an advisor to the OECD Development Assistance Committee, Network on Governance Program on Climate Change Adaptation Governance and was a contributing author to one chapter of the IPCC AR6 Climate Change 2021: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability.