Dr. Peter H. Gleick
Dr. Peter Gleick
is Co-Founder and President of the Pacific Institute for studies in
Development, Environment, and Security in Oakland, California. Upon
receiving his doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley
in 1986, Dr. Gleick took a post-doctoral position at the Energy and
Resources Group at UC Berkeley as a MacArthur Foundation Fellow in International
Security. Dr. Gleick then received another MacArthur Foundation in International
Peace and Security in 1998.
Dr. Gleick is currently
upon the Project Steering Committee for the World Conservation Union-Water
Demand Management in Southern Africa, and serves on the Public Advisory
Committee for the California Water Plan 2003 for the Department of Water
Resources. The author of several books, book chapters, and journal articles,
Dr. Gleick also serves on the editorial boards of several publications,
including Climatic Change, Environment and Security, and Water Policy.
In 1999, Dr. Gleick
was elected as Academician of the International Water Academy in Oslo
Norway, and was named one of the "90 People to Watch in the 90's"
by the San Francisco Chronicle.
Dr. Peter Rogers
Professor Rogers
specializes in methods for managing natural resources and the environment.
His research has included investigating the use of analytic optimizing
methods to incorporate birth the natural phenomena and the engineering
controls; the development of meso-scale models of resource management
that relate directly to macro-economic parameters; formulation of robust
indices for environmental quality; and the impacts of global change
on water resources.
Professor Rodgers
received his PhD in Environmental Engineering from Harvard University,
where he has also been a professor of Environmental Engineering and
City and Regional Planning since 1967. He was appointed the Gordon McKay
Professor of Environmental Engineering at Harvard in 1974.
Professor Rogers
is currently Commissioner of the World Commission on Water for the 21st
Century, and has also served on numerous advisory groups and commissions
assessing water issues. In addition he has served as a consultant on
water resources to government agencies in India, Bangledesh, Pakistan,
Morocco, and Costa Rica. He has also consulted USAID, the UN, the World
Bank, UNIDO, WHO, FAO, ADB, and many domestic US agencies.
Dr. Frank Rijsberman
Frank Rijsberman
has 20 years experience as a natural resources planner in projects for
fresh water resources, coastal zones, soil erosion, environmental management
and climate change / sea level rise. Most recently, Professor Rijsberman
has worked mostly in integrated water and coastal resources management,
particularly the design of computer based decision support and communication
systems (DSSs) used to facilitate stakeholder participation. He has
worked on projects throughout the developing world, including Afghanistan,
Yemen, Egypt, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, India, the Maldives, Indonesia,
Mexico, Turks and Caicos Islands, Netherlands Antilles, Jamaica, Poland,
Hungary. Prof. Rijsberman has consulted for UNDP, UN-DTCD, World Bank,
USAID, European Union, Inter-American Development Bank, ESCAP, the Netherlands
Government, French Government and OECD.
Professor Rijsberman has been involved in international developments
on water policy since he co-authored one of the keynote papers at the
Dublin Conference in 1992. He has consulted both the Government of the
Netherlands and the Global Water Partnership on international water
resources management issues. In 1998 he was appointed Deputy Director
of the World Water Vision Unit of the Secretariat of the World Water
Commission; and in 2000, he served as co-author/editor for the World
Water Vision report and technical companion volume. From 1992-2000,
he served as Managing Director of Resource Analysis, a private research
and consulting firm in the Netherlands that provides technical services
in the fields of water resources management, coastal zone management,
and environmental management that he co-founded in 1987. In 1999, he
was appointed part-time professor at IHE in Delft in 1999.
Frank Rijsberman
currently serves as Director General of the International Water Management
Institute, a CGIAR-supported research institute headquartered in Colombo,
Sri Lanka, effective August 2000.
Dr. Aaron T. Wolf
Dr. Aaron Wolf is
a specialist in transboundary water conflicts and conflict resolution,
water basin technical and policy analysis, and environmental policy
analysis. In addition to currently being Assistant Professor in the
Department of Geosciences at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon,
Dr. Wolf is also the Director of the Transboundary Freshwater Dispute
Database Project and an Affiliate Staff Scientist of the Pacific Northwest
National Lab.
Dr. Wolf is the
author of several books, book chapters, and scholarly articles on topics
realted transboundary water issues, and has consulted the US government
and international organizations on such issues. Since 1997, Dr. Wolf
has been on the organizing committee for the UNESCO/ADC Third Millenium
Center for the Prevention and Management of Water Conflicts. Dr. Wolf
has also worked with the United Nations University in Tokyo, Japan,
by organizing and co-directing a planning workshop for stakeholders
of the Salween Basin and writing and presenting background paper for
Mideast policymakers in Cairo, Egypt. Dr. Wolf's advisory experience
also includes consultancies with the World Bank, USAID, EPA, the Foreign
Service Institute, and the Alabama Office of Water Resources.
Dr. Roland Steiner
Dr. Steiner recently
accepted the position of Regional Water and Wastewater Manager at the
Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (WSSC) where he is responsible
for technical and financial arrangements between WSSC and other organizations
with which it shares water supply or wastewater facilities and interests.
Prior to this position, he worked at the Interstate Commission on the
Potomac River Basin for 17 years on issues involving water supply, water
quality, and associated land resources. He focused on water resource
allocation responsibilities for the Washington, DC metropolitan area.
His work included coordinating projects to: develop watershed management
plans, implement methods to efficiently use water supplies, forecast
future water demands and analyze potential new sources of supply for
the Washington, DC metropolitan area. Dr. Steiner holds Bachelors and
Masters degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania
and Stanford University, respectively, and a PhD in Environmental Engineering
from The Johns Hopkins University. In previous positions, he worked
in England and Wales for national and regional water and wastewater
management agencies, and taught Mathematics at the University of Baltimore.
Dr. Steiner is a registered Professional Engineer.
Mr. Richard Volk
Richard Volk began
his resource management career in 1979 while working to assist South
Pacific islanders to develop and manage their nearshore fishery resources.
During his initial five years of work in that region, Richard served
two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer, and later was employed by the
U.S.-based Foundation for the Peoples of the South Pacific. Small-scale
fisheries development and coastal resources management were the target
of his efforts in both the Kingdom of Tonga and in the Solomon Islands.
Following a brief return to the U.S. for graduate studies in 1985-87,
Richard served the American Samoa Coastal Management Program from 1988-92
as Environmental Planner. From 1992-93 he served as Chief of Party with
the Island Resources Foundation for a two-year project to develop Special
Area Management Plans for critical coastal areas in the U.S. Virgin
Islands. Before beginning his tenure in late 1998 with the U.S. Agency
for International Development, Global Environment Center, Water Team,
Richard served for five years as Executive Director of the Corpus Christi
Bay National Estuary Program in South Texas.
Dr. Meg Findley
Meg Findley has
served as EIC's Water Resources Analyst for the past three years, working
with USAID's Water Team to promote integrated water resources management.
She has recently completed an Agency-wide research study to assess the
breadth and scope of the Agency's water portfolio throughout all regions
of the world. This work will be featured in the next bimonthly issue
of the American Water Resources Association journal, Water Resources
IMPACT. Findley has a Ph.D. in Aquatic Ecology, with special emphasis
on sustainable development, from the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill. Her areas of expertise include strategic planning in integrated
water resources management; environmental impact assessment of hydropower
and urban development projects; and community-based natural resources
management, particularly in water quality monitoring. Prior to her current
assignment with EIC, Findley worked in Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, and
Indonesia.
|
|
