Rethinking Water – Talk by John Briscoe – Fri, Nov 11, 12:30 – 1:30pm
Rethinking Water at Boston-Area Universities Speaker Series
12:30-1:30PM
Fri, Nov 11
JOHN BRISCOE
WATER SECURITY – WHAT IT IS AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT
Dr. Briscoe’s career has focused on the issues of water and economic development. He has worked as an engineer in South Africa and Mozambique; as an epidemiologist at the Cholera Research Center in Bangladesh; as a professor of water resources at the UNC; and, in a variety of policy and operational positions in the World Bank. Most recently he has served as the Bank’s Senior Water Advisor and the Country Director for Brazil. He holds a joint appointment as the Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of
Environmental Health in the School of Public Health (SPH) and as Professor of the Practice of Environmental Engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) at Harvard University. He will speak about his recent work related to water security followed by a Q & A session.
Location: HARVARD UNIVERSITY, MAXWELL DWORKIN 119,
The street address for the Maxwell Dworkin building is 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA.
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Bring your lunch!
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