Dr Ravi de Costa
Dr Ravi de Costa
Senior Associate
Ravi de Costa is a leading academic in interdisciplinary social sciences. His scholarly work involves collaborative and hybrid approaches to contemporary Indigenous political development, and the interaction of Indigenous and environmental issues.
2018: Visiting Fellow, Menzies Australia Institute, Kings' College London
2012-2018: Progression from Program Director, Associate Dean Research, to Dean of the Faculty of Environmental Sciences, York University, Canada
2013-16: Australian Research Council Discovery Project ($280,000). (Partner Investigator).
2015-2018: York University Academic Innovation Fund – Category 1 (CAN$186,500).
Consultancies for the Government of Canada on Indigenous demographics and identity (2012); and for a Canadian donor designing a new philanthropic vehicle for forest conservation research and training in Latin America (2018).
Board Member (since 2016) and current Vice-Chair of Planet in Focus Film Festival, Canada’s most important environmental film festival.
Member of Governing Council of Ontario Climate Consortium (2017-18), a coalition of municipalities and universities created to drive climate change research and adaptation strategies.
2012: Visiting Scholar, The Cairns Institute, James Cook University
1999-2012: Academic appointments at Swinburne University of Technology, and at McMaster University, Trent University and York University in Canada
PhD. (Swinburne University of Technology, 2002).
B.A. Honours 1st Class (University of Sydney, 1996).