Author Description
Sharon B. Megdal, Ph.D. is Director of The University of Arizona Water Resources Research Center, Professor of Environmental Science, C.W. & Modene Neely Endowed Professor, and Distinguished Outreach Professor. Her water management and policy work bridges the academic, practitioner, and civil society communities. Applied research projects include analysis of water management, policy, and governance in water-scarce regions and transboundary aquifer assessment. Each Spring Semester, she teaches the graduate course “Water Policy in Arizona and Semi-arid Regions.” A Fellow of the American Water Resources Association, Sharon Megdal is a member of the (Arizona) Governor’s Water Policy Council, the Board of Governors for the Kasser Joint Institute for Food, Water, and Energy Security, and the Leadership Team for the Colorado River Basin Water & Tribes Initiative. Dr. Megdal’s full CV can be accessed at https://wrrc.arizona.edu/director.
