Larry Swatuk is Professor in SEED. He holds several other positions: Extraordinary Professor, Institute for Water Studies, University of Western Cape, South Africa; Adjunct Professor of International Development, St. Mary’s University; External Research Fellow, Centre for the Study of Security and Development, Dalhousie University; and Research Associate at the Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC) in Bonn, Germany. At UW he is also a Faculty Member of the Water Institute, the Balsillie School of International Affairs and is cross-appointed to the School of Planning and the Department of Geography and Environmental Management. Dr. Swatuk's research focuses on the political economy of natural resources with a particular focus on freshwater governance and management in the Global South. He teaches courses in global political economy, theories of international development, and water security. Swatuk is also Associate Editor of the open access journal Water Alternatives (http://www.water-alternatives.org/) and a founding member of the Environmental Peacebuilding Association (https://environmentalpeacebuilding.org/). Prior to joining the University of Waterloo, Swatuk was a lecturer at the University of Botswana and Associate Professor of Resource Governance at the Okavango Research Institute, Maun, Botswana (1996-2007); Senior Research Fellow, African Centre for Development and Security Studies in Ijebu-Ode, Nigeria (1995-96); and a post-doctoral fellow at the York Centre for International Security Studies (1993-95).
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