Dr. Peter H. Gleick is Co-Founder and President of the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security in Oakland, California. His research and writing address the critical connections between water and human health, the hydrologic impacts of climate change, sustainable water use, privatization and globalization, and international conflicts over water resources.

Dr. Gleick is an internationally recognized water expert and was named a MacArthur Fellow in October 2003 for his work. In 2006 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C. In 2011 he won the IWRA's Ven Te Chow Award and the first U.S. Water Prize.

Gleick received a B.S. from Yale University and an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He serves on the boards of numerous journals and organizations, including Blue Planet Network, and is the author or editor of nine books, including The World's Water, and the new A Twenty-First Century U.S. Water Policy.