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Visiting professor
Faculty of Social Sciences
Economics

Contact information:

Office: 613-562-5800 (1374)
Home: 613-680-7765
E-mail: jbernar3@uottawa.ca

Research information:

• Economic aspects of energy use: price, costs and governmental policies.
• Analysis of energy markets by price and cost: electricity, oil, natural gas.
• Government policies relating to energy: taxation, programs and regulations.
• Economic considerations of greenhouse gas emissions.

Area(s) of expertise:

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• Energy (electricity, oil, natural gas)
• Energy costs
• Environmental economics
• Policy
• Regulation
• Taxation

Language preference:

English and French

Associate professor
Telfer School of Management

Contact information:

E-mail: dhimick@uottawa.ca

Preferred method of contact:

E-mail

Research information:

I currently research the range of positions that investors take to respond to climate. These include incorporating ESG in their investment policies, engaging with companies, or divesting from fossil fuels entirely. I am currently involved on a large project about the fossil fuel divestment movement, comprised of students, faculty, and other activists worldwide who promote the exit from carbon intensive industries, in large institutional investors like pension funds, universities, and governments. I examine the range of responses to this movement, from doing nothing, to adopting a net-zero approach, all the way to committing to divest from energy companies.

Area(s) of expertise:

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• Accounting
• Climate change
• Corporate Social Responsibly
• Decision-making at the interface of science and policy
• Disclosure
• Environmental policy
• Ethics
• Finance
• International financial institutions
• Labour relations
• Policy
• Regulation
• Social norms
• Social trends
• Sustainable development

Language preference:

English only