Yannick Beaudoin

Yannick Beaudoin is the Director-General for Ontario and Northern Canada with the David Suzuki Foundation. He brings an ‘economics for transition’ lens to the Foundation aimed at helping to enable a socially thriving and ecologically sustainable Canada. He applies art of change and participatory social processes to a variety of themes that include: adaptation to uncertain climate futures, embedding of local, traditional and indigenous knowledge in policy-, decision- and choice-making, promoting a transition to a sustainable relationship between society and Nature. From his decade with the United Nations to his return to Canada in 2018, he has been facilitating conversations around the world, highlighting various solution pathways towards a well-being centric, #beyondGDP economic system. Yannick holds a Phd in Marine Geology from the University of Toronto and an MA Economics for Transition from Schumacher College in the UK.