Elizabeth Atkinson is the Director of Strategic Partnerships with the Interdisciplinary Centre for Climate Change at the University of Waterloo. She is currently on secondment from Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) to help UWaterloo develop a proposal for a Networks of Centres of Excellence (NCE) on climate adaptation. At NRCan, Elizabeth was the Senior Policy Manager at the Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Division where she helped shape Canada’s adaptation policy and Natural Resources Canada’s adaptation programming since 2003. She is the former chair of the Adaptation Platform Economics Working Group and Vice-chair of the Adaptation Platform Plenary. Elizabeth has served as a member of advisory committees on adaptation to the National Round Table on the Environment and Economy and the Conference Board of Canada.