The Drive for Green Growth
View on uOttawa Gazette website"Carolyn Fischer, one of the world’s leading environmental economists, is coming back to her birth country from the United States and Europe to hold the Canada 150 Research Chair at the University of Ottawa.
Fischer, a Canadian–American citizen who was born in Ontario while her parents were computer science professors at the University of Waterloo, says the draw for her return is Canada’s strong commitment to becoming a global leader in addressing climate change."
"Since she completed her doctorate in economics in 1997, Fischer has been at the Washington-based think tank Resources for the Future, which pioneered the modern field of environmental economics. A senior fellow there since 2007, she has also been a key influence on global policy and research as a visiting scholar at the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei in Venice (as a European Commission Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow), the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, the London School of Economics, the University of California (Santa Barbara) and the Centre for Advanced Study of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, among others."
