Fadi Masoud is an Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Toronto and the Director of the Centre for Landscape Research. His research and teaching focuses on the relationships between environmental systems, urban design, and public policy. Masoud currently leads projects on urban climate adaptation and the design of equitable and resilient public landscapes. Prior to joining the University of Toronto, he held teaching and research appointments at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. Masoud is trained as a planner and landscape architect and is the recipient of several awards, including the Ontario Association of Landscape Architects Research and Innovation Award, the Council of Landscape Architects Teaching Excellence Award, the Heather M. Reisman Gold Medal in Design, the Jacob Weidenmann Prize, and was a Landscape Architecture Foundation National Olmsted Scholar and a Fulbright Fellow. He is the editor of Terra-Sorta-Firma: Developing the Littoral Gradient (Actar 2020), an atlas of urbanism on reclaimed land. Masoud currently sits on Waterfront Toronto’s Design Review Panel and was a member of the City of Toronto’s Urban Flooding Working Group that helped launch the city’s first Resilience Strategy.