Kenneth Strzepek is a leading researcher and practitioner at the nexus of engineering, environmental, and economics systems, primarily related to water resource planning and management and to climate-change adaptation.
Strzepek is a Research Scientist at the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, and Professor Emeritus of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering at the University of Boulder at Colorado. He has spent 30 years as a researcher and practitioner at the nexus of engineering, environmental and economics systems, primarily related to water resource planning and management, river basin planning, and modeling of agricultural, environmental, and water resources systems. His work includes applications of operations research, engineering economics, micro-economics and environmental economics to a broad range of applications: from project scale to national and global investment policy studies. He has worked for a range of national governments as well as the United Nations, the World Bank, the USAID.
He is a Visiting Professor of Economics and Affiliated Professor in College of Architecture and Planning at the University of Colorado at Boulder as well as a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute as well as an International Fellow at the Center for Environmental Economics and Policy for Africa and Examiner in the Department of Agricultural Economics at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He has been a contributing author to the Second IPCC assessment, the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, the World Water Vision, and the UN World Water Development Report. He is currently the USAID Scientific Liaison Office on Water and Climate Change to the CGIAR. Prof. Strzepek has a PhD in Water Resources Systems Analysis from MIT, an MA in Economics from the University of Colorado, and is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Economics at the University of Hamburg, Germany.