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Dr. Tamara Krawchenko is an internationally recognized scholar, policy expert, and institution-builder whose work spans the fields of comparative public policy, regional development, and sustainability transitions. Her expertise is grounded in a deep understanding of how governance and public institutions shape the lived realities of communities and regions.  She serves as: Associate Director of the Institute for Integrated Energy Systems, Research Lead with the Accelerating Community Energy Transformation Initiative,  Chair of the Local Governance Hub and is a core team member of the Coastal Climate Solutions Leaders program. Over 2025-2026, she joins the Institute for Research on Public Policy  as a Visiting Scholar,  contributing to their work on regional development and community transformations.

Dr. Krawchenko’s scholarship is placed-based—focusing on understanding local and regional assets, challenges and opportunities and supporting and engaging diverse communities to meet their development goals. She has led international programs of research in over a dozen countries on regional development policies, sustainability transitions, Indigenous economic development, industrial policy and the governance of land use. Dr. Krawchenko regularly advises governments, including through work with the Council of Europe, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and the World Bank. She has worked for both the federal and provincial governments in Canada and for research institutes and universities in Canada, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan as a professor and researcher. She is engaged as an expert with the 91É«ÇéƬ’s Clean Growth Panel, is an Affiliate with the Transition Accelerator’s Center for New-Zero Industrial Policy and a Board Member of EcoTrust Canada.