January 2023 Speakers Series Announcement: Tamara Lorincz

To welcome us into the new year, we are excited to announce that Tamara Lorincz will be our first speaker for the 2023 Speakers Series! Join us on January 11, 2023 at 5 PM PST/ 8PM EST to learn more about militarism, the climate and the war in Ukraine as Tamara reflects on her time at COP27. 

Tamara Lorincz is a PhD candidate in Global Governance at the Balsillie School for International Affairs at Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada. Tamara graduated with an MA in International Politics & Security Studies from the University of Bradford in the United Kingdom in 2015. She was awarded the Rotary International World Peace Fellowship and was a senior researcher for the International Peace Bureau in Switzerland.

Tamara is a member of the Canadian Pugwash Group, the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace and the Women’s International League for Peace andFreedom (WILPF). She is currently the Convenor of the WILPF Environment Working Group. She is also on the international board of Global Network Against Nuclear Power and Weapons in Space and fellow with the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute.

Tamara has an LLB/JD and MBA specializing in environmental law and management from Dalhousie University. She is the former Executive Director of the Nova Scotia Environmental Network and co-founder of the East Coast Environmental Law Association. For several years she was on the national board of Ecojustice Canada and the Nova Scotia Minister’s Round Table on Environment and Sustainable Prosperity.

Her research interests are the military’s impacts on the environment and climate change, global climate governance, the intersection of security and peace, gender and international relations, Canadian defence and foreign policy, resistance to NATO, feminist foreign policy, and disarmament.

We are looking forward to hearing from Tamara this January!