Can we achieve the Sustainable Development Goals in a post-COVID world?
A Water Institute Conference Covering Five Continents Over Three Days
“We need to turn the recovery into a real opportunity to do things right in the future.” – António Guterres, UN Secretary-General
Does the coronavirus pandemic doom the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? Or does it present an opportunity to make significant progress against the SDGs? How can water research contribute?
Join the Water Institute from 8:00 to 9:30 am EDT on September 29, September 30 and October 1 for three days of interdisciplinary dialogue from leading water researchers around the globe who will be discussing their work in the context of the coronavirus pandemic and the SDGs.
Register for each day below.
DAY
ONE
SEPTEMBER
29,
8:00
to
9:30
AM
EDT
|
Time (EDT) |
Speaker |
|
8:00 to 8:20 |
Ana
Deletic,
Pro
Vice-Chancellor
(Research),
University
of
New
South
Wales,
Australia |
|
8:20 to 8:40 |
Wun
Jern
Ng,
Nanyang
Technological
University,
Singapore |
|
8:40 to 9:00 |
Veena
Srinivasan,
Ashoka
Trust
for
Research
in
Ecology
&
the
Environment,
India |
|
9:00 to 9:30 |
Panel discussion moderated by Nandita Basu, University of Waterloo |
DAY
TWO
SEPTEMBER
30,
8:00
to
9:30
AM
EDT
|
Time (EDT) |
Speaker |
|
8:00 to 8:20 |
Amal
Talbi,
Senior
Water
Resources
Specialist,
Middle
East
North
Africa
Region,
World
Bank |
|
8:20 to 8:40 |
Eiman
Karar,
Advisor
to
Minister
of
Irrigation
and
Water
Resources
of
Sudan,
Sudan |
|
8:40 to 9:00 |
Mark
van
Loosdrecht,
Chair
Professor, Environmental
Biotechnology,
Delft
University
of
Technology,
The
Netherlands |
|
9:00 to 9:30 |
Panel discussion moderated by Roy Brouwer, University of Waterloo |
DAY
THREE
OCTOBER
1,
8:00
to
9:30
AM
EDT
|
Time (EDT) |
Speaker |
|
8:00 to 8:20 |
Luciana
Martin
Rodrigues
Ferreira,
Director
General,
São
Paulo
State
Geologic
Institute,
Brazil |
|
8:20 to 8:40 |
Joan
Rose,
Michigan
State
University,
USA |
|
8:40 to 9:00 |
Rachel
Arsenault,
PhD
candidate,
York
University,
Wiikwemkoong
Unceded
First
Nation |
|
9:00 to 9:30 |
Panel discussion moderated by Professor Kelsey Leonard, University of Waterloo |
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