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May 6th, 2022

Canadian Standard Setting needs to keep up with the rapidly evolving ESG issues and long-term public interests must be at the foundation of its development

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Amr Addas

Senior Director, Sustainable Finance and Insights, Farm Credit Canada

Amr Addas is the Senior Director, Sustainable Finance and Insights at Farm Credit Canada. Prior to joining FCC, Amr was the Strategic Advisor for Sustainability and a lecturer at the John Molson School of Business, Concordia University, director of the Van Berkom Investment Management Program, led the Sustainable Investing Practicum and was the director of Concordia’s Sustainability Ecosystem.

Amr has been involved in the sustainable investing community in Montréal since 2010, offering advisory services to financial institutions on developing sustainable investing strategies, serving on a number of investor ESG Advisory boards, and on key working groups that helped put Montréal on the map as a global hub for sustainable finance. This included the Finance and Sustainability Initiative, Finance Montréal’s Sustainable Finance Working Group, and as a member of the Finance Montréal-led Advisory Committee for developing a Sustainable Finance Roadmap for Québec.

Amr obtained his MBA from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1995 and his B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the American University in Cairo in 1991.