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Gerry Galloway is a Glenn L. Martin Institute Professor of Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and an Affiliate Professor, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, where his focus is on water resources policy and management. He also serves as a consultant to several international, federal, state and non-governmental agencies. He is a member of the Louisiana Governor’s Advisory Commission on Coastal Protection, Restoration and Conservation, a Department of State Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas Fellow, a consultant to The Nature Conservancy on its Yangtze River Program and to the WWF on its China Flood Risk Management program, and a member of an NHI Team reviewing Dams and Climate Change in the Mekong Basin. He served for seven years as a member of the Mississippi River Commission and was assigned to the White House to lead the study of the Great Mississippi River Flood of 1993.

A veteran of 38 years of military service, he retired from the military as a Brigadier General and Dean of Academics at West Point. He holds degrees from West Point, Princeton, Penn State, and the University of North Carolina. He is a professional engineer, an honorary diplomate of the American Academy of Water Resources Engineering, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.

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Related Resources from Gerald Galloway

Flood Risk Management in 2050
Toward a Sustainable Water Future, 2012

A Plea for a Coordinated National Water Policy
The Bridge, National Academy of Engineering, 2011

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