Speaker: Jon Freedman, vice
president, global partnerships
and policy, GE Water & Process
Technologies.
Speaker: Michael
Berkowitz, president,
100 Resilient Cities at the
Rockefeller Foundation.
On April 13, 2017 Dyson College presented
the highly anticipated Summit on
Resilience—Water Cooperation and Conflict:
e Local and Global Challenge. e day-
long conference brought together the best and
brightest of Pace University faculty and other
luminaries to discuss innovative solutions for
the protection and sharing of the Earth's most
precious and finite resource—water.
Dyson welcomed Dr. Peter Gleick as keynote
speaker and as the first Dyson College Institute
for Sustainability and the Environment's
(DCISE) Scholar-in-Residence.
Gleick is a water scientist, a 2003 MacArthur
"genius grant" Award recipient, and the
co-founder and president emeritus of the
Pacific Institute, a global water think tank
located in Oakland, California. He is world-
renowned for having developed one of the
first analyses of the impact of climate change
upon the Earth's water resources and the first
comprehensive work on water and conflict.
As the DCISE Scholar-in-Residence, he gave
talks and held seminars for students and faculty
on solutions to national and global water
conflicts, and contributed to the formulation of
a water education program at Pace University.
Water Cooperation and Conflict:
6 | Dyson Year in Review
