Dr Liette VASSEUR

Full Professor/ UNESCO Chair in Community Sustainability: from local to global, Brock University

I'm a full professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Brock University where she is also a member of the Environmental Sustainability Research Centre. Since 2014, I hold the UNESCO Chair on Community Sustainability: From Local to Global at Brock. Her research program is highly interdisciplinary and links issues such as community-based ecosystem management, climate change adaptation and resilience, ecosystem governance, and sustainable agriculture. Her research program is not only in Canada, but also in China, Ecuador and West Africa, mainly in Burkina Faso and Senegal. She is also involved in women in Science and former president of the Canadian Coalition for Women in Engineering, Science, Trades and Technology. She is President of the Canadian Commission for UNESCO. She also is the vice-chair for North America Region of the Commission for Ecosystem Management at the IUCN and leads the thematic group on Ecosystem Governance.