Lake Governance (PDF)

Dr. Velma I. Grover has a vast experience in international development with international policy think-tank (United Nations University), consulting (UNESCO, Economic Research Forum, Egypt) and teaching at Universities (McMaster University and York University), thus developing a deep understanding of stakeholder issues and policy research (mainly in the area of water and waste). She has worked internationally on different water issues, ranging from capacity building in integrated water resources management, impact of climate change on the water cycle, trans-boundary lake basin management, integrating the supply of safe drinking water and sanitation to health and the reduction of poverty, and introducing good governance in Asia, Africa and North America. She was also invited by Oxford University to organize a half day workshop called "The Looming Water Crisis as the Himalaya Glaciers Melt" at the Smith School World Forum on Enterprise and Environment at Oxford in July 2009. Velma has been visiting scholar at: Kalmar University (1999), the Smith School of Enterprise and Environment at Oxford (2008), and the School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University, Shanghai China (2009). She was also a Bryant Drake Visiting Professor at Kobe College, Japan (2013-14). She was selected by an international selection committee, chaired by Queen Noor of Jordan, to attend the first leadership workshop by the United Nations University in Jordan in 1997. Velma has authored/edited twelve books and has published numerous articles in journals. She is also an Adjunct at McMaster University and York University.