WATER SUMMIT 2013
Welcome Address
David Cohen - Tanugi, 2013 MIT Water Club President
Thank You from MIT
Professor John Lienhard, MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering
Keynote Speaker 1
Professor Franklin Fisher, MIT Department of Economics
Keynote Speaker 2
Dr. Kenneth Strzepek, Professor Emeritus, Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder; Research Scientist, MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
Who Owns Water?
Speakers
Professor Franklin Fisher, MIT Department of Economics
Leon Awerbuch, CTO, Leading Edge Technologies Ltd.
Asst. Professor Sharmila Murthy, Suffolk University Law School
Professor Larry Susskind, MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Food / Water Nexus
Speakers
Gabriela Burian, Senior Director Sustainable Agriculture at Monsanto
Professor Dennis McLaughlin, MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Associate Professor Tim Griffin, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University
Energy / Water Nexus
Speakers
Ken Kimmell, Commissioner Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection
John Rogers, Senior Energy Analyst, Union of Concerned Scientists
Professor John Lienhard, MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering
Emerging Contaminants
Speakers
Professor Phil Gschwend, MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Herve Buisson, VP at Veolia Water
Carol Rowan West, Director of MassDEP Office of Research and Standards
Ruth Marfil - Vega, Senior Scientist at American Water
Closing Remarks
Speakers
Kurt Sternlof, Executive Director, MIT Earth System Initiative