Amber Wutich
MacArthur Fellow, President’s Professor, and Director of the Center for Global Health, Arizona State University
Amber Wutich is a MacArthur Fellow, President’s Professor, and Director of the Center for Global Health at Arizona State University. An expert on water insecurity, Wutich directs the Global Ethnohydrology Study, a cross-cultural study of water knowledge and management in 20+ countries. Her two decades of community-based fieldwork explore how people respond, individually and collectively, to extremely water-scarce conditions. She leads Action for Water Equity, a participatory convergence study that develops collaborative water solutions with water-insecure U.S. communities. An ethnographer and methodologist, Wutich has authored 200+ publications, co-authored 6 books, edits the journal Field Methods, and directs the NSF Cultural Anthropology Methods Program. Her teaching has been recognized with awards such as Carnegie CASE Arizona Professor of the Year. Wutich has raised over $80 million in research funds, as part of collaborative research teams, from NSF, USDA, USACE, the State of Arizona, and other funders.
Makoto Taniguchi
Deputy Director-General, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature
Prof. Makoto Taniguchi is a hydrologist and a deputy director-general at the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN), Japan. He is an IUGG Elected Fellow, a JpGU Fellow, a Cooperation Member of Science Council of Japan, a Future Earth Assembly member, and a Steering Committee member of Water-Energy-Food Nexus KAN. He served as PI and Co-PI of many research projects including UNESCO-GRAPHIC, Groundwater in Asian Megacities, Water-Energy-Food Nexus, and the Belmont Forum SUGI Food-Energy-Water NEXUS. He has worked on water-related projects around the world, authored or co-authored over 180 articles, and edited or co-edited eight books.
Günter Blöschl
Head of the Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management, Vienna University of Technology
Prof. Günter Blöschl heads the Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management at the Vienna University of Technology. His main research interests are in hydrology and water resources management. Using an ERC Advanced Grant awarded to him, he demonstrated the role of climate change in increasing flood risk at the European scale which he published in Science (2017) and in Nature (2019 and 2020). He directs the Vienna Doctoral Programme on Water Resource Systems and the Hydrology Open Air Laboratory (HOAL). He is one of the early proponents of Sociohydrology. He received the Horton Medal from AGU, the Wegener Medal from EGU, and the International Hydrology Prize from IAHS/WMO/UNESCO. He is a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), the German National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) and the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE). He recently received two honorary doctorates.
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