Truzaar Dordi is a Doctoral Candidate in Sustainability Management at the School of Environment, Enterprise, and Development (SEED). His research investigates the intersection between climate risk and financial resiliency.
Truzaar holds a Master's in Sustainability Management from the University of Waterloo where his research examined the burgeoning fossil-fuel divestment movement. Since then, Truzaar has worked on sustainable capacity building for small and medium enterprises in the Waterloo region, stakeholder simulations of infrastructure projects like Canadian pipelines, the design of a national climate finance strategy, and on flood risk management projects. He sat on the executive committees of Sustainable Youth Canada, Sierra Youth, Fossil Free UW, and the Canadian Society for Ecological Economics and is the director for Waterloo Sustainable Development Group’s (WSDG) Impact Investing Division. Truzaar is the recipient of the 2018 Energy Council of Canada Energy Policy Research Fellowship, awarded for his work on financial stability.
Areas of research and expertise: sustainable finance, climate risk, energy policy
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