Professor Julien Harou is Chair in Water Engineering at the University of Manchester, UK since 2013. Previously he was a lecturer at University College London. He has a PhD from the University of California Davis in water resources engineering and economics. Julien's group contributes globally leading research in water resources planning and management, water-energy-food systems, infrastructure investment assessment, and water planning software (
www.waterstrategy.org). His group is active in Africa, Asia and Europe.