As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series,ÌýQuentin Grafton,ÌýProfessor of Economics and Chairholder UNESCO Chair in Water Economics and Transboundary Water Governance at the Australian National University (ANU),Ìýwill present: Responding to the World Water Crisis: Mar del Plata (1977) to New York (2023).
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Speaker bio
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).
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