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Water Conflict - Speaker Biographies
DR. TIMOTHY W. FORESMAN
President, Global Water
Dr. Timothy W. Foresman was Executive Science Advisor to the United
Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and former Director of the
Division of Early Warning and Assessment of UNEP in Nairobi, Kenya. Dr.
Foresman has a Ph.D. in geography and has been a professor with the
University of Maryland and visiting professor with Keio University of
Japan where he has taught Geographic Information Systems (GIS), remote
sensing, field techniques, and Earth design courses for sustainable
development. He was formerly director of the Digital Earth Program at
NASA Headquarters and currently serves as president of the
International Center for Remote Sensing Education. He continues to
conduct field work for creating community-based decision support
systems in developing nations to promote sustainable development for
balancing environmental and social challenges.
RAY WILLIAMSON
Research Professor of Space Policy and International Affairs in the Space Policy Institute
Education: Ph.D., University of Maryland
Expertise: Environmental
security, Earth observation satellite policy, dual-purpose space
technologies and the commercialization of space-related technologies
Background: Dr.
Williamson is Research Professor of Space Policy and International
Affairs in the Space Policy Institute. He has conducted numerous
in-depth studies of space technology and policy.
Before joining
the Institute in 1995, Dr. Williamson was Senior Associate and Project
Director in the Office of Technology Assessment of the U.S. Congress.
From 1979 to 1995, he directed most of OTA's space-related studies,
including U.S.-Russian Cooperation in Space (1995), Civilian Satellite
Remote Sensing (1994), and Global Change Research and NASA's Earth
Observing System (1994).
In 2006, Dr. Williamson was appointed
to serve on the NOAA Advisory Committee on Commercial Remote Sensing,
and has previously served on committees of the National Academy of
Sciences. He is editor of the Earth observations magazine Imaging Notes
and a member of the International Editorial Board of the journal Space
Policy. He is the editor of: Commercial Observation Satellites: At the
Leading Edge of Global Transparency, with John C. Baker and Kevin
O'Connell (RAND and ASPRS, 2001); Dual-Purpose Space Technologies:
Opportunities and Challenges for U.S. Policymaking (Space Policy
Institute, 2001); and Space and Military Power in East Asia: The
Challenge and Opportunity of Dual-Purpose Space Technologies, with
Rebecca Jimerson (Space Policy Institute, 2001). He is also the author
or editor of seven books on archeology, historic preservation, and
American Indian astronomy and culture, including Living the Sky: The
Cosmos of the American Indian (author).
Dr. Williamson received
his B.A. in physics from Johns Hopkins University and his Ph.D. in
astronomy from the University of Maryland. For ten years he taught
philosophy, literature, mathematics, physics and astronomy at St.
John's College in Annapolis, where for five years he also served as
Assistant Dean.
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