Author biography

Karen Bakker is Director of the Program on Water Governance and an Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada). Her work on water governance covers a broad range of issues including private sector participation, municipal utility restructuring, delegated water governance, and water security. She was commissioned by The Water Dialogues for the writing of the Summary Report in order to lend critical insight on the outcomes of the project.

As International Coordinator of The Water Dialogues at the time of writing, Kate Martin lent in-depth understanding of the international and national processes of the project, both in terms of emerging findings as well as broader impacts on the sector.