Helen Tooze

Helen Tooze is a Senior Policy Researcher with the Canada Climate Law Initiative through a postdoctoral research fellowship with the University of British Columbia (UBC). She has authored three climate-risk governance guides for directors of Canadian credit unions, major mining firms, and the real estate sector. 

Helen earned her PhD from UBC’s Peter A. Allard School of Law, a distinction-awarded MA in Banking and Law from Bangor University, Wales, and an LLB (Honours) from The Open University, England. Her research interests encompass banking and securities law, financial intermediation, corporate governance, structured finance, mandatory climate reporting, sustainable finance and financial systemic risk in Canada, the UK, and the EU.

Helen has been the grateful recipient of the Bangor Law School Gold Scholarship, UBC’s Four-Year Fellowship, the Peter Allard Faculty of Law Graduate Award, the British Columbia Law Foundation Fellowship, and the David L Vaughan QC Memorial Scholarship in Corporate Law. Since 2019, she has contributed to the Canada Climate Law Initiative through research on climate governance, disclosure, and comparative climate regulatory policy.