SWM - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Program Director, Lecturer ( Core Faculty )

Biography Erum K. Sattar received her Doctorate in Juridical Sciences (S.J.D.) from Harvard University where her dissertation committee consisted of Professors Mark Tushnet, James Salzman and Amartya Sen. The late Professor John Briscoe was also a member of her committee. Her doctoral research spanning law and policy focused on issues of water federalism and trans-boundary water sharing in the Indus River Basin. At the Friedman School and the Tufts Institute of the Environment, Dr. Sattar leads and teaches in the multidisciplinary Sustainable Water Management Program (SWM) that draws together colleagues and disciplines from across Tufts University. Her current research is focused on the impact of climate change as it disrupts water availability and the legal and institutional structures that societies need to design to adapt to growing environmental stresses ranging across floods, a warming climate, and long-term droughts. Her work is centered on studying water both as a physical as well as a historically constructed shared and governed resource that has significant implications for economic development and political economy, food security, political systems and migration patterns, and the stability of ecosystems. Education: Harvard Law School, SJD, 2017 Harvard Law School, LLM, 2010 Queen Mary, University of London, LLM, 2008 University of London LLB, 2007

Job Titles:

• Lecturer, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy

Biography Joshua Ellsworth is an Adjunct Lecturer with Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy and teaches in Tufts' MS Program in Sustainable Water Management and Tufts Gordon Institute. Josh is a forester and international development practitioner with over 25 years of experience in the fields of sustainable development, ecological restoration, and social change and innovation education. He has taught classes in project planning, sustainable agriculture, and forestry at Brandeis University and mentored teams in social impact innovation at the Hartford Seminary and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has served as a judge on the Tufts 100k challenge and the MIT IDEAS Global competition. Education M.A., in Sustainable International Development, Brandeis University, 2007 M.S., in Forestry, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2003 B.S., in Fish and Wildlife Management, Montana State University,

Job Titles:

• Lecturer, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy

Biography Kirk Westphal, P.E. is a practicing Water Resources Engineer serving as the National Water Resources Director for Brown and Caldwell, an environmental consulting firm focusing on water, wastewater, and reclaimed water. He received his B.S. from Boston University in 1991, and after receiving his M.S. from Tufts University in 2001, his 20-year career in water has taken him to 28 states and five countries to help develop long-term water management plans. He specializes in Integrated Planning, Statewide and Regional Water Planning, Water Supply, Water Quality, Climate Vulnerabilities, and the connectivity between Water and Energy. He also focuses on the social aspects of water management: Connecting people to their watersheds, and to others with competing objectives. He has helped facilitate water agreements between Indigenous Nations and US State and Municipal governments, Utilities and Environmental Nonprofit Groups, and state regulatory agencies with competing interests in water management - the common theme is building consensus with tools, science, and respect. He has twice received the ASCE Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management award for Best Practice-Oriented Paper for journal articles on progressive tools and techniques in water supply and drought management, and has given frequent guest lectures and conference addresses across the United States. Education M.S. Tufts University, 2001 B.S. Boston University, 1991