Speaker - Tiara Letourneau

NOTE: Luncheon is $20, please register no later than Tuesdays 12 noon. We have to provide head count to the hotel. Email Antonio at aleechang@gmail.com for assistance.Register your car license plate at the Front Desk for free parking.

 

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Climate, Change, and the Challenge

Tiara Letourneau is a strategist in the financial sector. She currently works with the Green Climate Fund, assisting in the development of its Strategic Plan and Private Sector Facility. She holds a Masters of Finance from Cambridge University and has a background in international development, corporate strategy, and commercial and retail banking. She has completed research in microfinance, Islamic banking, banking history, and alternative models of corporate governance in universal banks. Previously she worked as a Manager of Strategy at RBC, and has held positions in Aboriginal finance and microfinance.

 

Prior to 2008 Tiara worked in international development, specializing in microfinance and business-development training for street-traders. She also holds a Masters of Development Studies from the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal. In 2010 Tiara became an Action Canada Fellow and chaired the Action Canada Task Force on Canadian Household Debt. She has held leadership positions in a variety of organizations including the think tank Canada25 and the Compassionate Eye Foundation. She also held the position of Senior Editor for Economics at The Cambridge Globalist Cambridge University’s foreign affairs magazine.