Conveners

Elodie Jacquet is the Manager of Knowledge and Practice at the Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue at Simon Fraser University. She has been working with the Centre and other clients from all levels of government on a variety of dialogue and civic engagement processes for the past 15 years. She has developed and refined her convening and facilitation skills in a wide variety of dialogues, including Canada’s World, Citizens’ Dialogue on Canada’s Energy Future and the community guided dialogues for the National inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. She was a lead investigator for the Government of Canada on Inclusion in Open Government and a peer-reviewer for the Government of Canada’s 4th Open Government Plan. She was the project lead for the Centre’s work on Equity in Public Engagement and has won the International Association of Public Participation Research Project of the Year award in 2021 for the Beyond Inclusion: Equity in Public Engagement report. She delivers trainings on the value of engagement, best practices for effective and collaborative engagement and on equity in public engagement. She currently leads the Centre’s work on climate engagement, and is an official UNFCCC Research and Independent Non-governmental Organisation observer at the COP. She holds a Masters on Global Climate and Energy Policy from SOAS, University of London and degrees in behavioural biology from Université Paris XIII Nord.