Ken Conca

Dr. Ken Conca is a Professor of International Relations in the School of International Service at American University. His research focuses on environment, conflict, and peacebuilding; water politics and governance; and the role of the United Nations (UN) in environmental governance. Ken’s work has been recognized with several major awards, including the Grawemeyer Prize for Ideas Improving World Order, the Al-Moumin Award for thought leadership in environmental peacebuilding, the Harold and Margaret Sprout Award for best book on international environmental affairs, and the Chadwick Alger Prize for best book in the field of International Organization. He is a member of the UN Environment Programme’s Expert Advisory Group on Environment, Conflict, and Peacebuilding, and he served previously on the Scientific Steering Committee on Global Environmental Change and Human Security for the International Human Dimensions Program on Global Environmental Change. His most recent books are An Unfinished Foundation: The United Nations and Global Environmental Governance and The Oxford Handbook of Water Politics and Policy (both with Oxford University Press). Ken earned his PhD from the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley.

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