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• Supporting the start-up of the Fair Finance Fund, a non-profit dedicated to providing loans to local food sector within Ontario: Leading the investor outreach and due diligence, impact measurement system and investment.
• Supporting Libro Credit Union in the development of an $6,000,000 impact investing fund that will provide loans and other investments to undercapitalized businesses and organizations within their operating area that.
• Supported University of Windsor in becoming a UNPRI signatory, including providing the research and analysis, action plans and updating investment policies and procedures for the foundation and endowment
• Designed and delivered a comprehensive database of available funding opportunities for Ontario farmers for the County of Huron Ontario
• Co-hosted Rural Investment: A Pathway Towards Food System Sustainability workshop in partnership with the Centre for Rural Creativity. The purpose of the workshop was to discuss the financing needs of producers and.
• Advised Kindred Credit Union on available private bonds options, specifically provincial renewable energy options, that could be offered through their institution

Waterloo, Ontario

• Contributed to and implemented the frameworks for monitoring and impact measurement ofblended finance projects: Sustainable Impact Investing in Frontier Markets (Global Affairs Canada pilot blended finance project in.
• Providing monitoring and impact measurement support and led a market actor survey for Greater Rural Opportunities for Women (GROW), a six year project funded by Global Affairs Canada, with the main goal of improving.

• Researching the trends of investment into agriculture through commodities, equities, land and foreign direct investment over the past ten years
• Participated in a global governance on food policy course based in Rome, Italy to visit international food governance organizations tackling the issues of poverty, hunger and food security
• Formulated a United Nations Carbon Responsibility index and accompanying report that frames a more unified global approach to greenhouse gas mitigation using country indicators
• Co-authored a paper entitled: A Comparative analysis of the anti-Apartheid and fossil fuel divestment campaigns. Published in: The Journal for Sustainable Finance

Researching the responsible investing activities of the charitable sector - how investing inline with your missions and values can create positive benefits for the organization and sector that the charities mission and purpose is within.

Greater New York City Area

• Co-created and implemented S&P Capital IQ Two Day Quantitative Equity Investing course, now a course through McGraw-Hill companies
• Gained detailed knowledge of the equity universe for quantitative strategies through conference presentations, research reports and participating in Quantitative Work Alliance for Applied Finance, Education and Wisdom.
• Managed multiple teams to build a more standardized and secure form of our hosted version of our quant product, ClariFI
• Transformed the infrastructure of the quant product and database to utilize fixed income and macroeconomic data. This product is now being sold to investment advisors globally

• Effectively utilized ClariFI, a tool that focuses on quantitative investment management and research. It offers factor backtesting, model construction, strategy simulation, portfolio optimization, risk and performance.
• Assisted in start-up duties, including fundraising and statistical backtesting of portfolios

Masters Of Environmental Studies (Mes), Sustainability Management

Activities and Societies: • Responsible Investing Association (RIA) Conference 2015 and 2016 Participant • First Global Conference on.

Cours De La Civilization, French Studies

8 week intensive french course with both oral and written components. Classes were taught in French

Honors In Business Administration, Econometrics And Quantitative Economics / Financial Modeling / Operations / Accounting

Activities and Societies: • Graduated with Distinction • Model United Nations Candidate • Exchange student at the Hong Kong University of.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Major In Mathematics