Christopher Orr Email & Phone Number

Montreal, Qc, Ca

Co-investigator for project "Sustaining and Strengthening City Climate Action in the COVID-19 crisis for a green and climate-resilient recovery"• Collaboratively developed research project; coordinated partnership activities• Developed and designed proposal, grant writing• Engaged global stakeholders to collaborate in knowledge co-production• Conducted systematic literature review

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

• Coordinated academic research partnership activities, engaging research partners, facilitating meetings, coordinating a speaker series, planning a symposium, and delivering workshops• Developed research agendas, co-authored research papers, co-edited a book

Berkeley, Ca & Kolkata, India

• Designed, built and tested a pilot-scale prototype to remove arsenic from drinking water• Managed project resources, budget and goals in Berkeley, California and Mumbai, India• Coordinated field operations with international research group partners.

• Conducted feasibility studies, data processing, analysis, and writing of scientific reports for environmentally sensitive monitoring projects• Coordinated, implemented and led numerous fieldwork operations, training new staff both independently and as part of a team• Performed extensive technical tasks including specialized system installations, equipment calibration, testing, troubleshooting, as well as satellite, solar panel and network setup• Completed detailed, technical, scientific reports and presented to industry clients

Nb, Canada And Rural Nicaragua

• Developed and coordinated several overseas projects in a rural Nicaraguan community• Wrote a bilingual Memorandum of Understanding to improve the inter-NGO partnership• Applied design techniques and practical knowledge of physical theories to develop a lamination process for solar photovoltaic panels; built a solar laminator capable of this process; results presented at the American Solar Energy Society, 2011

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Natural Resource Sciences

I conducted historical analysis, elite interviews, systems dynamics mapping, and institutional analysis of Canadian climate.

Master Of Science (Ms), Bioresource Engineering

I analyzed Quebec's system of collaborative watershed governance through the lens of legitimacy. I conducted a multi-level stakeholder.

[In]City Summer Program, City & Regional Planning

Honours Bachelor Of Science, Physics & Environmental Science