Pedro Barata

Pedro Barata is the president and CEO of Habitat for Humanity Canada, a 45-member federation and Canada’s only national affordable-homeownership organization. He is a passionate and values-driven leader with two decades’ experience driving multi-sector collaborations that achieve solutions for communities. Pedro has helped secure policy change at all levels of government, on affordable housing and homelessness, workforce development, poverty reduction, income security breakthroughs, and immigration reform.  

Prior to Habitat, Pedro was executive director of the Future Skills Centre, where he led the start-up of the national research impact centre and launched more than 200 innovation pilots in every region and sector in Canada. Previously, at United Way Greater Toronto, Pedro held senior roles in partnerships, research, policy, evaluation, public affairs, and communications. As senior vice president of strategy and public affairs, Pedro oversaw $94 million in annual community investment and led multiple advocacy campaigns nationally and provincially.  

Pedro has held numerous advisory roles locally and nationally, in innovation, housing strategy, income security, and the creation of inclusive and equitable communities. He sits on the expert advisory panel of the Century Initiative and the boards of directors of the Agora Foundation, the Better Childcare Education Foundation, and Learnx.