Marianne Armstrong
Director, Climate Resilient Built Environment Initiative at National Research Council Canada
Marianne Armstrong is Director of the National Research Council’s (NRC’s) Climate Resilient Built Environment Initiative. In this role, she establishes and executes the national research program to increase the resilience of Canada’s infrastructure and buildings to climate change and extreme events. Since 2016, she has led the R&D vision in this area, directing and inspiring multi-disciplinary resources at the NRC and collaborators from over 170 different organizations to achieve critical progress and impacts in support of national policy on adaptation. Ms. Armstrong has built her career at NRC over the past 20 years, with a strong research background in building envelope and materials, and residential energy technologies. Marianne is a member of the Professional Engineers of Ontario, holds a MSc in Industrial Design from University of New South Wales, Sydney, and a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from Queen’s University.
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