Dr. Kenneth M. Strzepek
Research Scientist, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, Center for Global Change Science, University of Boulder at Colorado, CO, USA
Professor Emeritus of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, University of Boulder at Colorado, CO, USA
Ph.D. Water Resource Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA
M.A. Economics, University of Colorado, CO, USA
M.S. Civil Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA
B.Sc. Civil Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA
Dr. Strzepek has spent 30 years as a researcher of engineering, environmental and economics systems, primarily related to water resource planning and management, river basin planning, and modeling of agricultural, environmental, and water resources systems. His work includes applications of operations research, engineering economics, micro-economics and environmental economics to a broad range applications: from project scale to national and global investment policy studies. He has worked for a range of national governments as well as the United Nations, the World Bank, the USAID. He is Professor Emeritus of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and recently a Visiting Professor of Economics and Affiliated Professor in College of Architecture and Planning at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute as well as an International Fellow at the Center for Environmental Economics and Policy for Africa and Examiner in the Department of Agricultural Economics at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He has been an contributing author to the Second IPCC assessment, the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, the World Water Vision, and the UN World Water Development Report. He is currently the USAID Scientific Liaison Office on Water and Climate Change to the CGIAR.