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Speaker: William Gagnon, Corporate Knights magazine #top30 Sustainability Leaders and Energy Transition Advisor for Médecins Sans Frontières

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Bio: William lives in the Canadian Sub-Arctic, in Yellowknife NT where he witnesses the climate emergency on a daily basis: thawing permafrost, higher precipitation leading to buildings collapse, thinner ice shelf, erratic fish population, and more. A building engineer (Concordia University ’17), advocate and campaigner for climate (Cornell, ’19), he specializes in green buildings and decarbonization of the building sector (Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, ’18). He likes working at the intersection of design, engineering, climate advocacy, sustainability and research. He is now pursuing an MSc in Bioresource Engineering at ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ University where he focuses on Carbon Capture & Storage upscaling in the Canadian North.

William is a green buildings expert, and holds the LEED green buildings professional accreditations.

Action feels better than anxiety; William spends most of his time working or volunteering around climate. In recent years, he spoke about climate, ecoanxiety, sustainability and decarbonization at conferences in Alaska, Seattle, China, Sweden, Spain, the Netherlands, Norway, Greenland, Montreal, Yellowknife, and Whitehorse. In 2018, he joined the Corporate Knights magazine #top30 Sustainability Leaders list. William is now the Energy Transition Advisor for Médecins Sans Frontières where he contributes to their 50% emissions reduction target by 2030.

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