Dr. Hossein Selected as Interim Director

The Institute for Inclusive Economies and Sustainable Livelihoods is one of three new institutes created under GTA-RISE (Institutes for Globalization, Transnationalism and the Advancement of Resilient, Inclusive Societies and Ecosystems) at UTSC to help tackle challenges ahead for the global community.

Dr. Caroline Hossein will lead this institute, helping to develop its mission and programming until the Inaugural Director begins in July. This institute hopes to provide an intellectual environment that enables the exploration, development, and sharing of diverse economic solutions, while facilitating partnerships with community organizations. Its vision is imagining sustainable and just economic futures in an age of degrowth.

Hossein has already gathered a council around her of 18 experts in inclusive economies at the three University of Toronto campuses. “They work in political studies, economics, development and sustainable livelihoods, are feminist in orientation, and are thinking of business in exciting ways, through transportation, education, human rights, and more.”

The institute will build on the research strength UTSC has already demonstrated in inclusive economies, including Hossein’s own work, which she describes as “pushing against mainstream commercialized financial systems, and asking how we can do business in new ways that incorporate diverse forms of local economies that already exist, especially more cooperative forms.”

Read the full article by the University of Toronto’s Office of The Vice-Principle of Research Innovation.