Emmanuel Taiwo

Emmanuel Taiwo is a chartered environmental professional and a doctoral researcher at the IMPACT Lab, University of Toronto, Scarborough. A Vanier Scholar (SSHRC) and a Connaught Public Impact Fellow, Emmanuel’s research focuses on investigating and tackling equity and justice barriers hindering Canadian communities, especially across the Greater Toronto Area, from accessing innovations in climate and energy transitions. His research centers a whole-of-society and co-production approach, partnering with community-based organizations, grassroot partners and various stakeholders in his research design and execution. Emmanuel previously advised the UK Government, Global Affairs Canada, and several others on multimillion dollar climate, energy and environmental projects, and has led sustainability initiatives in the UK and across Africa over the last decade. He completed an MSc in sustainable environmental management with distinction from Greenwich as a Commonwealth Scholar and a Master of Public Policy from the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford as an Africa Initiative for Governance Scholar. Emmanuel has held fellowships with Massey College, the Earth System Governance Project Network, the Canada Excellence Research Chair Network for Equity in Sustainability Transitions, the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society, and loves spending time motivating future sustainability leaders of the next generation.