James Tansey
Associate Professor
james.tansey@sauder.ubc.ca
Home department: UBC Sauder School of Business
Website: Entrepreneurship, Sustainability and Innovation Group
Research Interests
- Social Innovation, Impact Investing and Social Finance
- Social Entrepreneurship
- Ecosystem Service Markets
- Social acceptability of technology
- Institutional theories of risk
Biography
James is also an associate professor at the University of British Columbia’s Sauder School of Business and is the Executive Director of S3i, a Research Centre at the Sauder School of Business dedicated to social innovation and. James received his PhD in Environmental Sciences from the University of East Anglia in 1999. He has taught in MBA, EMBA, Executive Education, MSc and Undergraduate programs in the UK and Canada. James was previously a faculty member at Oxford’s Saïd Business School. Research by James covers a number of areas, including the social impacts and acceptability of new technologies, industrial ecology and scenario methods. More recently, his research has focused on social innovation and impact investing, clean technology policy and ecosystem services. He led the creation of the UBC Impact Accelerator and the UBC Impact Fund.