Tracey Forrest is the Director of the Transformative Quantum Technologies program at the University of Waterloo. Her mission is to accelerate the development and adoption of impactful quantum technologies for a sustainable future. She serves as a board member of Q4Climate, a member of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities Green Municipal Fund Council and is the former chair of the NANO Research Centre Advisory Board of the National Research Council of Canada. Ms. Forrest received her engineering degree from the University of Waterloo and master’s degree in energy and environmental economics from Scuola Mattei.