Climate change, water bankruptcy and human security

Kaveh Madani

Dr. Kaveh Madani is currently the Director of the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health and a Research Professor at the City College of New York/CUNY-CREST Institute. Prior to this, he has held positions at Imperial College London and Henry Hart Rice Senior Fellow at the Yale University’s MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies Dr. Madani has about 15 years of interdisciplinary research and policy making experience in water management, climate change and environmental justice. He has held high-level policy making experience, including the Vice Presidency of the United Nations Environment Assembly Bureau, overseeing the world’s highest-level decisionmaking body on the environment. He has also been involved in the negotiations over the implementation of the Paris Agreement as a lead negotiator and head of delegation.

Over the last decade, Dr. Madani has served as PI/co-PI in several research projects around the world with a total funding of about 20 million dollars from NSF, EPA, NOAA, and the European Union, among others. He works at the interface of science, policy and society and has held academic positions in natural sciences, social sciences and engineering departments at the world’s leading academic institutions. His research efforts primarily encompass the areas of climate change adaptation, stakeholders’ engagement, environmental security, and resilient infrastructure operations. He has authored over 160 refereed articles in scholarly journals and conference proceedings and has supervised over 50 postdocs, PhD and MS students.

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