About

Urban planning. Sustainable finance.

Insights. Entrepreneurial. Multilingual.

Jean-François has 15+ years of experience in academia, financial services, media, sustainability consulting, and public policy. He has worked with firms, universities and governments in Canada, Europe, Latin America, the U.K., and the U.S. His work helped financial institutions improve their to socially-responsible investment disclosures as former Lead Analyst at Sustainalytics.

He is the Head of Research & Financial Analysis at Ombrello Solutions, where is helping to structure the $250 million Civic Infrastructure Bond to create urban parks. Jean-François also works as a Research Fellow at the Ivey Business School at Western University as part of a team researching how to increase the adoption of regenerative agriculture practices in Canada. He is a Registered Professional Planner designation and a Full Member of the Ontario Professional Planners Institute.

He completed a Master of Planning in Urban Development at Toronto Metropolitan University (Formerly Ryerson University). His major research paper described how the City of Toronto can remove obstacles to use reserve funds for parkland acquisition and described 25 financial tools that can be used for this purpose. He held a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council – Canada Graduate Scholarship (Master’s) and the Ontario Graduate Scholarship. He holds an Honors in Business Administration from the Ivey Business School at Western University, where he did an exchange term at the Rotterdam School of Management at Erasmus University in The Netherlands.

He is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of A Voice for Transit, an advocacy organization focused on transit equity in the Toronto region. He has also co-founded Friends of Marita Payne Park in Vaughan, Canada.

Jean-François is fluent in English, French and Spanish.

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