Dr. Suzanne Chew

Dr. Suzanne Chew is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto Mississauga, working jointly across the Departments of Anthropology and Geography, Geomatics and Environment. She completed her PhD in Geography at the University of Calgary, researching inclusive participation, voice and intercultural communication in environmental decision-making, learning from Inuit communities in the Canadian Arctic. Chew is an avid storyteller and communicator, and has published poetry and stories in literary magazines and gallery collections.

Previously serving on the Board of the Calgary Climate Hub, a local nonprofit, Chew is also the Founder of Little Climate, an initiative which communicates climate change creatively to empower climate action. Prior to graduate studies, Chew worked extensively in the climate change field in both the private and non-profit sector in Europe and Asia; she held the positions of Alliance Director at the international non-profit Nexus in Singapore, focused on low-carbon, poverty-alleviation programmes in Asia and Africa, and Regional Manager at TFS Green in London, UK, focused on financing global, low-carbon projects. Her project management experience includes household energy, water purification, small scale renewable energy, clean cooking solutions and waste-to-energy, efficient lighting, brick manufacturing, bio-energy from agricultural waste rice husk, run-of-river hydropower, and biogas recovery and utilization. She brings key skills in successfully managing complex projects and building strategic partnerships with a diverse range of stakeholders. Chew started her career as a business analyst with McKinsey & Company, in strategic management consultancy. She graduated with Honours in Physics from Imperial College London (MSci), and has a Masters in Environmental Technology, majoring in Environmental Economics (MSc Distinction).