Bruce Lourie is President of the Ivey Foundation with a mission to improve the well-being of Canadians by focusing on selected issues of significance, including climate change. He is a founding Director of the Canadian Environmental Grantmakers’ Network and Canadians for Clean Prosperity as well as a Director with Philanthropic Foundations Canada and the Ontario Power Authority.

Dr. Lourie is co-author of the books “Toxin, Toxout: Getting Harmful Chemicals Out of Our Bodies and Our World” and “Slow Death by Rubber Duck” as well as an Adjunct Professor at Queen’s University and visiting lecturer at University of Oxford. He has been named a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society of Canada, an honorary director of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment and receiving a York University Bryden Award for outstanding achievement in his career in 2015.