Mark Giordano

Mark Giordano is Professor of Geography and the Cinco Hermanos Chair in Energy and Environment at Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service, where he teaches courses on international political dimensions of water and agriculture, the renowned Maps of the Modern World, and many others. Mark is one of the world’s most cited water scholars and has provided training to hundreds of diplomats trained on food and water security. Beyond the university, he serves as an adviser to organizations ranging from the World Bank to the National Museum of Asian Art and sits on a variety of boards including those of the Washington Map Society, the Kentler International Drawing Space, and the Mokuhanga Drawing Space as well as the Board of Trustees of his alma mater, Whitman College. Prior to Georgetown, Mark held multiple roles at the Sri Lanka-based International Water Management Institute, winner of the Stockholm Water Prize–the “Nobel Prize for Water,” and worked as an agricultural trade economist for the U.S. government. He spent most of his professional life prior to Georgetown in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. In the spring, he can be found on the Potomac River fishing for shad, a fish whose reintroduction demonstrates that environmental problems can be solved.

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