Daugherty Water for Food Institute Global Fellows are faculty members and researchers external to the University of Nebraska who provide significant and sustained contributions to the Institute’s global research, scholarship, engagement and education programs. Global Fellows substantively and geographically complement the Institute Leadership’s and Faculty Fellows’ areas of expertise, thereby expanding the Institute’s capacity to implement projects internationally. Appointments are non-salaried.
Richard G. Allen
Professor of Water Resources Engineering, University of Idaho
Soumya Balasubramanya
Senior Economist, World Bank, Washington DC
Wim Bastiaanssen
Water Resources Analyst and Remote Sensing Specialist, UNESCO-IHE, The Netherlands
Shimelis Beyene
Consultant, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
George Burba
Principal Scientist and Tech Group Leader, R&D, LI-COR Graduate Adjunct Professor, SNR, University of Nebraska
Antonio Heriberto de Castro Teixeira
Embrapa Satellite Monitoring, Campinas – Sao Paulo, Brazil
Colin Everson
Hydrometeorologist, South African Earth Observation Network, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
Rolando Flores
Dean, College of Agriculture, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, New Mexico State University
Tim Foster
Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Water-Food Security, University of Manchester
John Gates
Senior Vice President and Global Head of Product, CropX Technologies
Helena A. Gomez Macpherson
Tenure Researcher, Instituto de Agricultura Sostenible, Córdoba; Spain
Christopher Hain
Assistant Research Scientist, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction
Laszlo Hayde
Senior Lecturer in Irrigation Engineering, Programme Coordinator, WSE MSc Programme, IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, The Netherlands
Ravinder Kaur
Principal Scientist, Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI)
Rachael McDonnell
Deputy Director General – Research for Development, International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Rome, Italy
Thuraya Mellah
Researcher and Lecturer, Manouba University, Tunisia
Gary P.Merkley
Irrigation, Water Resources, and Hydraulic Engineer, Ft. Collins, Colorado
Douglas J. Merrey
Independent Researcher, Gainesville, Florida
Aditi Mukherji
Principal Scientist, International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Delhi, India
Jeffrey M. Peterson
Director, Water Resources Center, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota
Daran Rudnick
Professor and Director of Sustainable Irrigation, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas
Janay Sagin
Water Resources, Professor, Dulaty Taraz Regional University, Kazakhstan, Central Asia
Federico Garcia Suarez
Assistant Professor, University of the Republic, School of Agronomy, Social Sciences Department, Montevideo, Uruguay
Paulo de Tarso
Director, Environmental Law Clinic, Federal University of Paraná
Daniel Tsegai
Programme Officer, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, Bonn, Germany
Slim Zekri
Associate Professor, Department of Natural Resource Economics, CAMS, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman