Speakers
A number of internationally recognized authorities on environmental values will speak at, and participate in, Sustainable and Safe Drinking Water in Developing and Developed Countries: Where Science Meets Policy. They include:
| Walter Giger, PhD, Scientist Emeritus at Eawag, the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology; Independent Consultant, Giger Research Consulting in Zurich, Switzerland; Adjunct Professor at the Curtin Water Quality Research Centre, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia. Dr. Giger holds degrees from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. |  |
| Dr. Giger has over three decades of experience research, teaching and consulting activity dealing with organic compounds in the environment. He is an expert on organic pollutants in water, in the evaluation of chemical, physical and biological processes determining the environmental fate of chemicals. He was Head of the Division of Chemistry at Eawag and has taught at universities around the world.
Dr. Giger has published over 140 articles in peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Giger is a member of the ISI Highly Cited Researcher database in the field of Environmental Sciences and he was the 2004 ISI Australian Citation Laureate in the field of Ecology and Environment. He served as President of the Division of Analytical Chemistry of the Swiss Chemical Society. From 1990 to 2007 Dr. Giger was an Associate Editor of Environmental Science and Technology. In 2007 the Division of Environmental Chemistry of the American Chemical Society organized a Tribute Symposium for Dr. Giger. | |
| Guy Howard, UK Department of International Development |  |
| Dr. Howard is a water, sanitation and environmental health specialist working on issues of water resources, water supply, sanitation and environmental health in low and middle-income countries. He currently works in the Policy and Research Division of the DFID, providing policy lead on water resources, including the impacts and adaptation options for the water sector in light of climate change. He has previously worked as the International Specialist in the Arsenic Policy Support Unit in the Government of Bangladesh, providing support to implementation of arsenic mitigation. That post also included the promotion and implementation of water safety plans, and the use of quantitative health risk assessment as a means of establishing policy and practice direction in technology selection and design.
Prior to joining DFID, Guy worked in Surrey and then Loughborough Universities undertaking research, consultancy and teaching, including a 3-year secondment into the Environmental Health Unit of the Ministry of health, Uganda. He has been a member of the WHO Drinking Water Committee since 1996 and participated in preparations of the 3rd edition of the Guidelines for Drinking Water Quality and key background documents related to water safety plans and risk management. | |
| Joan Rose, PhD, Homer Nowlin Chair in Water Research, Co-Director of the Center for Advancing Microbial Risk Assessment (CAMRA), and Director of the Center for Water Sciences (CWS) at Michigan State University. |  |
| Dr. Rose, a former professor from the University of South Florida, is the Director of the Center for Water Sciences at Michigan State. Her professional expertise includes environmental virology, environmental parasitology, drinking water treatment and disinfection, microbial risk assessment, wastewater treatment and reuse, water pollution microbiology, mycology and food microbiology.
Dr. Rose is an international expert in water microbiology, water quality and public health safety publishing more than 200 manuscripts. She has been involved in the investigation of numerous waterborne outbreaks world-wide, and her work has examined new molecular methods for waterborne pathogens and zoonotic agents such as Cryptosporidium and enteric viruses and source tracking techniques. She has been involved in the study of water supplies, water used for food production, and coastal environments as well as water treatment wastewater treatment, reclaimed water and water reuse and quantitative microbial risk assessment. She specifically interested in microbial pathogen transport in coastal systems and has studied the impact of wastewater discharges and climate on water quality. |
