Stuart is a Founding Partner of Terra and has worked in social housing and community development for over 40 years. Throughout Terra’s history, Stuart has helped the company adapt successfully to different market conditions, funding environments and policy regimes.

From 1982 to 1986 Stuart served as a Director and Treasurer of the Co-operative Housing Federation of Canada. He was later appointed a founding director of the Co-operative Housing Programs Administration Agency. He was a founding trustee of the Federal Co-operative Housing Stabilization Fund and served as both president and chair of the portfolio management committee. Stuart was a central figure in the business planning and development of COHO Management Services Society. In 2013, Stuart was named an Honorary Lifetime Associate by CHF Canada.

Internationally, Stuart has worked with Rooftops Canada Foundation and the Canadian Co-operative Association on consulting assignments in Zimbabwe and the Philippines and has served as a consultant to community organizations and government departments in South Africa, Australia and India.

In 1999, Stuart completed the International Housing Finance Program at the Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania. Stuart is a member of the Canadian Association of Business Economists and the International Union for Housing Finance. He has extensive post-graduate training in research design and data analysis and has held several contract positions as a program evaluation research director. He holds a BA in Psychology (1976) from the University of British Columbia and completed their Mortgage Brokers course.