Karen Bakker

Dr Karen Bakker is a Rhodes Scholar with a PhD from Oxford and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada; she was named a “Top 40 under 40” in 2011. She has been researching water issues for the past 20 years, and is the author of more than 100 academic publications, which have appeared in top journals such as Science _and _Global Environmental Change. Her interdisciplinary research examines the causes of—and innovative solutions to— some of our most pressing water problems