Team
Principal Investigator/
Project Lead
Dr. Ryan Katz-Rosene
University of Ottawa
Associate Professor, School of Political Studies;
Graduate Program Director, Institute of Environment
Ryan is the principal investigator of Climateflation in Everyday Life. Through the lens of Ecological Political Economy, his research examines how interactions between political-economic systems and the environment shape inequality, governance, and systemic stability. His work largely focuses on contentious climate policy debates, with recent research exploring Climateflation and its broader sociopolitical consequences.
Project
Lead
Dr. James Jackson
University of Manchester
Hallsworth Research Fellow, Sustainable Consumption Institute (SCI) & School of Social Sciences (SOSS)
James is the co-lead of Climateflation in Everyday Life. His work in political economy examines the intersection of fiscal, monetary, and climate policy, with a focus on the green transition. His research spans the electric vehicle (EV) transition, China’s role in the global green transition, central banks and climate policy, the environmental impacts of football, and Climateflation.
Local Project Associates
Dr. Jacqueline Best
University of Ottawa
Professor, School of Political Studies
Jacqueline works at the intersection of international relations, global political economy, and social theory. Her research examines global economic crises, central banking, and inflation, with a particular focus on the roles of failure, ignorance, and economic exceptionalism in governance and policy.
Dr. Sarah Sharma
University of Ottawa
Assistant Professor, Political Studies
Sarah’s research examines the social, political and economic forces that shape environmental policy outcomes. Her work highlights the multi-level power dynamics shaping socio-economic and ecological outcomes, with particular attention to how environmental policy unfolds across and within the Global North and Global South.
Dr. Geoff McCarney
University of Ottawa
Director, Institute of Environment; Executive Director Smart Prosperity Institute; Associate Professor, School of International Development & Global Studies
Dr. Geoff McCarney is Executive Director of the Smart Prosperity Institute and Director of the Institute of the Environment at the University of Ottawa, where he also serves as Associate Professor of Environment and Development in the School of International Development and Global Studies. Dr. McCarney brings more than a decade of experience leading large interdisciplinary research teams, multi-stakeholder partnerships and major grants focused on the environment-economy nexus. He specializes in policy-oriented research and knowledge mobilization in environmental, natural resource and development economics.
Dr. James Meadowcroft
Carleton University
Professor, Department of Political Science & School of Public Policy and Administration
James’ research expertise spans environmental politics and policy, global environmental governance, democratic participation, and sustainable development. His recent work focuses on energy and the politics of the low-carbon transition. James recently completed a 14-year term as a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Governance for Sustainable Development.
Dr. Patricia DeRepentigny
University of Ottawa
Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Environment, and Geomatics
Patricia’s research interests broadly cover climate projections of Arctic sea ice in Earth System Models, with the goal of improving our understanding of the multiple drivers of sea ice retreat on seasonal to centennial time scales. She co-chairs the Sea Ice Model Intercomparison Project (SIMIP) under the World Climate Research Programme, which coordinates sea ice model contributions to forthcoming CMIP7 data and the IPCC’s seventh Assessment Report (AR7) and helps develop community standards for model evaluation.
External Research Team Associates
Dr. Julie MacArthur
Royal Roads University
Professor & Canada Research Chair, Reimagining Capitalism
Julie is a critical political economist who specializes in low carbon transitions and energy democracy. Her work highlights the transformative impact of community-led and grassroots initiatives on climate adaptation and mitigation.
Dr. Imre Szeman
University of Toronto
Professor, Department of Human Geography & Director, Institute for Environment, Conservation, and Sustainability (UTSC)
Imre is a scholar of energy humanities, environmental studies, and social and political philosophy. His recent research focuses on the socio-cultural dimensions of energy use and the implications for just and equitable energy transitions. He is co-founder of the Petrocultures Research Group and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Dr. Chris Bataille
Columbia University
Global Fellow, Centre on Global Energy Policy; Associate Researcher, Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations; Adjunct Professor, Simon Fraser University
A macroeconomist by training, Chris has over 25 years of experience in energy and climate policy analysis. He has provided direct advice to several countries and international organizations, and was a Lead Author on the 6th and 7th IPCC Assessment Reports.
Dr. Alla Semenova
St. Mary’s College of Maryland
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics
Alla is an economist whose research focuses on monetary and fiscal policy and Modern Monetary Theory. She has expertise in central banking, inflation, and the economic dynamics of climate change.
Dr. Jared Finnegan
University College London
Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Public Public Policy, Department of Political Science
Jared studies climate change and energy policy across high-income democracies. His work focuses on long-term policy challenges, which he examines through comparative political economy and comparative public policy.
Dr. Matthew Paterson
University of Manchester
Professor, International Politics
Matthew is a scholar of environmental politics whose work focuses on the political economy, the cultural politics, and the governance of climate change. His recent work addresses the (re)politicization of climate change and the social dynamics surrounding energy transitions.
Student Researchers
Kaia Depelteau
University of Ottawa
Doctoral Student, Political Science
Kaia is a doctoral student who studies the political economy of global agrifood systems. Her research examines sustainability debates within this area, with a focus on the power dynamics surrounding ‘climate-smart’ agricultural technologies.