Robert Varady

Robert G. Varady is research professor of environmental policy and past director of the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy at the University of Arizona. He also is adjunct research professor of arid lands studies in the School of Natural Resources and the Environment, and adjunct professor in the Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences.  He obtained his PhD in 1981 in the modern history of developing-country infrastructure from the University of Arizona; and holds MS and BS degrees in mathematics from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn and the City College of New York, respectively. Varady's work mostly has addressed environmental and water-management governance and policy in arid regions, with an emphasis on transboundary issues, especially along the U.S.-Mexico border. He has studied the history of global water initiatives, transboundary aquifer governance, and water security in Latin America.  Varady has co-edited 13 books, monographs, digests, edited volumes, and journal special issues; and published more than 225 articles, book chapters, and reports on water and environmental governance, policy, and history. He is a Fellow Member of the International Water Resources Association and a past president of the International Water History Association (IWHA).