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Mission 2017 Panel Members

Meet Professor Maarten de Wit, Julia Bucknall, and Professor Calestous Juma, renowned experts in natural resources, water management, and sustainable development. Learn about their research interests and past achievements.

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Mission 2017 Panel Members

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  1. Mission 2017Panel Members

  2. Professor Maarten de WitNelson Mandela Metropolitan University • Founding and Science Director, Africa Earth Observatory Network • Chair of Earth Stewardship Science, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University • Founding Director of AEON (Africa Earth Observatory Network), a trans-disciplinary research institute (www.aeon.org.za); and the transdisciplinary Earth Stewardship Research Institute at NMMU.

  3. Prof. Maarten de Wit (con’t) Research Interests: • Economics of natural-resources and sharing of the ‘commons’ • Real costs of global pollution • Geodynamics, tectonics, early earth processes • The evolution of Africa and Gondwana; • The origin of continents, life and mineral resources;

  4. Julia BucknallWater Anchor, World Bank • Manager of Water, World Bank • water supply • sanitation • agricultural water management • hydropower • Masters in Environmental Policy and Planning, MIT

  5. Julia Bucknall (con’t) Past Work • Led water management projects in the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia, Caucuses, Central Europe • Environmental Resources Management, with projects in Cambodia, Zimbabwe, Mexico, Honduras • Author of “Making the Most of Scarcity,” a publication about water in the Middle East and North Africa Region

  6. Professor CalestousJumaJohn F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University • Professor of the Practice of International Development • Faculty Chair of the Innovation for Economic Development Executive Program • Director; Science, Technology and Globalization Project and Agricultural Innovation in Africa Project

  7. Prof. CalestousJuma (con’t) Research Interests: • biodiplomacy • ecological jurisprudence • technological innovation in sustainable development • biotechnology Recent Appointments, Awards • Fellow, Royal Society of London • Foreign Associate, US National Academy of Sciences • Editor, International Journal of Technology and Globalization • WWF International Board (2009-2012) • Committee on Grand Challenges in International Development, US National Academy of Sciences (2011-2013)

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