Sylvie Trottier is a philanthropist, family principal, and advocate, with a primary focus on climate and inequality. She is a board member of Trottier Family Foundation and the Eclipx Family Office. The Trottier Family Foundation has a primary focus on climate, health, education, and science, seeking to catalyze and scale transformative innovations, create cross sector collaborations, and take risks that others cannot. The Eclipx Family Office has a three-fold objective wherein investment, sustainability, and family values align toward a common purpose.

Sylvie also engages in the philanthropic ecosystem, sitting on the coordination committee for Le Collectif des fondations québécoises contre les inégalités, on the board Philanthropic Foundations Canada and as a member of Forward Global, as well as within the family office ecosystem as co-chair of the Cambridge Forum on Family Office Development and as a member of CREO Syndicate.  Sylvie worked in the environmental sector for nearly fifteen years, holds a BSc in Environmental Studies from McGill University and an MSc in Environment and Development from the London School of Economics. She is the co-owner and co-founder of a bilingual bookstore cafe bar in the Mile End of Montreal.