Azzam Abu-Rayash is the Director of Engineering at the Department of National Defense in Toronto, as well as a Research Associate and Governor at Ontario Tech University (Canada). Dr. Abu-Rayash has over a decade of industrial and research experience in the energy industry and sustainability field and has published a book titled Energy Sustainability with Elsevier along with several peer-reviewed papers in journals. He has also presented research at national and international conferences. He authored the energy plan for the City of Oshawa, which was recognized by the Association of Energy Engineers (AEE) by receiving the Institutional Energy Management Award for 2020. Currently, he leads a research project on district energy that involves multiple municipalities, the Regional Municipality of Durham as well as OPG. He is licensed as a Certified Energy Manager (CEM) by the Association of Energy Engineers.
