Keynote Event
Thursday, March 14, 6 pm–8 pm
Sister Jean Multipurpose Room, Damen Student Center
The Climate Change Conference keynote event will open with a musical presentation from Loyola's Department of Fine and Performing Arts. Peter Gleick, PhD, will then deliver the keynote address. After the talk, there will be a moderated question-and-answer session. The event will conclude with a reception with light refreshments.
Peter Gleick, PhD, is a leading scientist, innovator, and communicator on water and climate issues. He co-founded the Pacific Institute in Oakland, California.
Meet the keynote speaker
Peter Gleick, PhD, is a leading scientist, innovator, and communicator on water and climate issues. He co-founded the Pacific Institute in Oakland, California in 1987. The institute is an innovative, independent, non-governmental research center creating and advancing solutions to the world's most pressing water challenges. Gleick is currently president-emeritus and senior fellow at the institute. He is a scientist trained at the intersection of hydrology, climatology, and policy.
Gleick developed one of the earliest analyses of the consequences of climate change for water resources, the earliest comprehensive work on water and conflict, and defined basic human needs for water and the human right to water – work that has been used by the United Nations and in human rights court cases. He pioneered the concept of the "soft path for water," developed the idea of "peak water," and has written about the history and background of the growing bottled water phenomenon.
Gleick is a MacArthur Fellow, an elected member of the US National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He is a winner of the Ven Te Chow Award from the International Water Resources Association, the Czallany Award from the American Water Resources Association, and the US Water Prize from the US Water Alliance. In 2018, he received the Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization.
He received his BS from Yale University and an MS and PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. Gleick serves on the boards of numerous journals and organizations and is the author or editor of many scientific papers and fourteen books, including the influential series The World's Water, Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water, and A Twenty-First Century U.S. Water Policy. His most recent book, The Three Ages of Water: Prehistoric Past, Imperiled Present, and a Hope for the Future, was published in 2023 by PublicAffairs/Hachette.
Meet the keynote speaker
Peter Gleick, PhD, is a leading scientist, innovator, and communicator on water and climate issues. He co-founded the Pacific Institute in Oakland, California in 1987. The institute is an innovative, independent, non-governmental research center creating and advancing solutions to the world's most pressing water challenges. Gleick is currently president-emeritus and senior fellow at the institute. He is a scientist trained at the intersection of hydrology, climatology, and policy.
Gleick developed one of the earliest analyses of the consequences of climate change for water resources, the earliest comprehensive work on water and conflict, and defined basic human needs for water and the human right to water – work that has been used by the United Nations and in human rights court cases. He pioneered the concept of the "soft path for water," developed the idea of "peak water," and has written about the history and background of the growing bottled water phenomenon.
Gleick is a MacArthur Fellow, an elected member of the US National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He is a winner of the Ven Te Chow Award from the International Water Resources Association, the Czallany Award from the American Water Resources Association, and the US Water Prize from the US Water Alliance. In 2018, he received the Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization.
He received his BS from Yale University and an MS and PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. Gleick serves on the boards of numerous journals and organizations and is the author or editor of many scientific papers and fourteen books, including the influential series The World's Water, Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water, and A Twenty-First Century U.S. Water Policy. His most recent book, The Three Ages of Water: Prehistoric Past, Imperiled Present, and a Hope for the Future, was published in 2023 by PublicAffairs/Hachette.