2009 Presenters
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Rajendra K. Pachauri
Chair, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,* Geneva, Switzerland
Focus: How climate change may further stress water resources, especially exacerbating problems of clean water access and food security for the world’s poor
* The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
Asit K. Biswas
President, Third World Centre for Water Management, Atizapan, Mexico
Focus: Importance of water resources in alleviating poverty in developing countries and water as a basic human right
Peter H. Gleick
President, Pacific Institute, Oakland, California
Focus: Current state of world water resources and what the future might hold
William L. Graf
University Foundation Distinguished Professor, Professor and Chair of Geography, University of South Carolina
Focus: State of rivers in the United States, highlighting current management issues such as river restoration, channel change, damming and dam removal
Nancy N. Rabalais
Executive Director, Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, Chauvin
Focus: Health of estuaries and coastal waters as a critical ecological and food security issue and indicator of unsustainable management of land and freshwater resources
Larry L. Rasmussen
Emeritus Professor of Social Ethics, Union Theological Seminary, New York City
Focus: Ethical issues involved in water resource management and its connections to the well-being of the planet
David L. Sedlak
Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Focus: Connection between chemicals, like hormones and other pharmaceuticals, in the waste stream and the quality of the aquatic environment
Derek Walcott (Canceled)
Distinguished Scholar in Residence, University of Alberta, Emeritus Professor, Department of English, Boston University