Gauri Sreenivasan

Co-Executive Director (Policy and Advocacy), Canadian Council for Refugees

environment, social justice, nature conservation, green economy, nature-based climate change solutions, equity and human rights issues, reconciliation and nature

Media

Ottawa should reject a terminal expansion that puts human and environmental health at risk

An epic move to protect nature could help unite the country

Island Voices: What we can learn from an itchy shark

Why Canada should reject 'a race to the bottom' with the United States

Biography

Gauri Sreenivasan is a leading policy advocate and strategist for human rights, equity and a thriving planet. Sreenivasan is the co-executive director, policy and advocacy, at the Canadian Council for Refugees. She brings over 30 years of experience working in leadership roles across civil society, Parliament Hill, and with academia and researchers to build alliances for change on Turtle Island and around the world. She was most recently Policy and Campaigns Director for Nature Canada. Sreenivasan also worked for 15 years at the Canadian Council for International Cooperation (CCIC) as a senior analyst and team leader, as the Director of Parliamentary Affairs for the Official Opposition, and as a Policy and Research Director at the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Sreenivasan has an MA in International Affairs from Carleton University and lives in Anishinabe Algonquin territory (Ottawa) with her partner.

Expertise

  • environment
  • social justice
  • nature conservation
  • green economy
  • nature-based climate change solutions
  • equity and human rights issues
  • reconciliation and nature