Ed Whittingham

Fellow

Ed Whittingham is the co-founder and senior advisor of the Academy for Sustainable Innovation Canada, a charity that is working to train and certify a generation of professionals to lead Canada’s transition to a low-carbon economy. He is also the principal consultant at Whit & Ham, a consultancy helping to develop clean energy projects, and the co-creator and co-host of the Energy vs. Climate webinar, podcast and newsletter platform.

Ed’s reputation as a passionate, results-oriented environmental professional prompted The New York Times to name him one of Canada’s most prominent environmentalists.

Ed developed his expertise on climate change, energy policy, and corporate sustainability over more than 20 years of working collaboratively with companies, governments, universities and non-governmental organizations in Canada and internationally. From 2011 and 2017, Ed was the executive director of Pembina Institute, where he’d worked since 2005 as director of consulting.

Ed is a mentor with the Creative Destruction Lab. He is a past member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the Future of Oil and Gas, and a former board director for the Alberta Energy Regulator.

Ed holds a bachelor’s degree in East Asian studies from McGill University and an international MBA from York University’s Schulich School of Business, where he specialized in corporate sustainability and international business. During his graduate studies, he was a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada scholar, an Export Development Canada scholar and a visiting researcher at the United Nations Environment Programme’s Japan branch.

Ed joined PPF as a Fellow in 2020.

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