As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series, Quentin Grafton, Professor of Economics and Chairholder UNESCO Chair in Water Economics and Transboundary Water Governance at the Australian National University (ANU), will present: Responding to the World Water Crisis: Mar del Plata (1977) to New York (2023).
This event will be offered in person in EIT 3142 Conference Room from 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m., reception to follow from 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Quentin Grafton is Professor of Economics and Chairholder UNESCO Chair in Water Economics and Transboundary Water Governance. He is an Australian Laureate Fellow, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, a former President (2017-18) of the Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society (AARES) and a Distinguished Fellow of AARES. In 2022, he was appointed a Lead Expert and Commissioner of the Global Commission on the Economics of Water that will report to the UN 2023 Water Conference. He has published 185 scholarly articles in inter-disciplinary journals (such as Science), 47 chapters in books and 17 edited or co-authored books (including with Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press).