Frances Westley is a

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academic. She is the J.W. McConnell professor of social innovation at the

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. She was previously the James McGill professor of strategy at

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, and, from 2005 to 2007, director of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies of the

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. She chairs the board of the Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University, and is on the board of Engineers Without Borders Canada. Westley was made a member of the

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in 2021.

Publications

Wesley has co-edited two books: * with Michael Quinn Patton and Brenda Zimmerman: ''Getting to Maybe: How the World is Changed''. Toronto: Random House Canada, 2007. * with Katharine McGowan and Ola Tjörnbo: ''The Evolution of Social Innovation: Building Resilience Through Transitions''. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017. .

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