Giulio Boccaletti Explained

Giulio Boccaletti (born in Modena, Italy) is a British-Italian scientist and author.[1] He is an Honorary Research Associate at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment.[2] He has been the Chief Strategy Officer and Global Managing Director for Water at The Nature Conservancy[3] and was a partner of consulting firm McKinsey & Company. Trained as a physicist and atmospheric scientist, Boccaletti has been a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council,[4] and has served on the OECD-WWC High Level Panel on Infrastructure Financing for a Water-Secure World.[5] He is an Honorary Fellow of the Scientific Advisory Panel of the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change[6] and a member of the editorial advisory board of the journal Water Security.[7]

An alumnus of MIT, Princeton and Bologna universities, Boccaletti was briefly a lead author of the fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)[8] and has contributed to the ideas platform published by the Edge Foundation, Inc.[9] He was featured in the PBS series "H2O: The Molecule that Made Us".[10] His book "Water: A Biography", a history of how the distribution of water has shaped human civilisation, is published by Pantheon Books.[11]

Career

The Nature Conservancy

Boccaletti joined The Nature Conservancy (TNC) in February 2013. In his role as Chief Strategy Officer, he worked with other members of the Executive Team to develop the organization's strategy and apply economic and scientific practice to its conservation agenda. Likewise, as the organization's Global Managing Director for Water, Boccaletti led a team of over 200 freshwater scientists, policy experts, economists and on-the-ground conservation practitioners, promoting action on water issues by governments and businesses.[12]

Boccaletti has argued that if dams are better located, the same hydropower capacity could be built without damaging rivers to the same extent.[13] In 2015, TNC published a report on this called the Power of Rivers.[14]

Boccaletti has been a vocal proponent of the centrality of water access and security in dealing with other social issues such as public health.[22] McKinsey

In 2005 Boccaletti joined McKinsey & Company where he became a partner. He co-founded the water practice and worked with businesses and governments all over the world.[23] He co-authored the “Charting Our Water Future”[24] report, one of the first to address the question of global water scarcity through multilateral, private-public collaboration defining a cost-curve for investment in water infrastructure.[25]

MIT

In September 2003 Boccaletti joined the Department of Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he specialized in geophysical fluid dynamics and climate science. His research focused on the dynamics of large-scale oceanic flows. Boccaletti. G.. Ferrari, R. . Adcroft, A. . Ferreira, D. . Marshall, J. . The vertical structure of ocean heat transport . Geophysical Research Letters . MIT . 2005. 32. 10. L10603 . 10.1029/2005GL022474 . 2005GeoRL..3210603B. free.

Early academic career

Boccaletti holds an MSc in Theoretical Physics from the Università di Bologna, Italy, and an MA and PhD in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences from Princeton University.[26] He also investigated the theory of the General Circulation of the Atmosphere at Italy's National Research Council (Italy).

Other interests

Boccaletti is an acknowledged expert of the Italian musical instrument known as the Ocarina, an ancient type of wind instrument, with a history dating back some 12,000 years. A member of the Gruppo Ocarinistico Budriese,[27] Boccaletti has played professionally both in groups and solo since 1983.[28]

Awards

Research and publications

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Giulio Boccaletti Penguin Random House. 2021-01-22. PenguinRandomhouse.com. en-US.
  2. Web site: Dr Giulio Boccaletti People Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment University of Oxford. 2021-07-03. www.smithschool.ox.ac.uk.
  3. News: Nature Conservancy's executive team . . January 6, 2016.
  4. News: Global Agenda Council on water . . January 6, 2016.
  5. News: OECD Global Water Partnership . . January 6, 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160303122959/http://www.gwp.org/Global/About%20GWP/Publications/The%20Global%20Dialogue/Water%20policy%20statement%202015%2023.10.15%20WEB.pdf . March 3, 2016 . dead .
  6. Web site: Governance. 2021-01-22. CMCC. it-IT.
  7. Book: Water Security Editorial Board.
  8. Web site: IPCC authors' page . January 13, 2016 . January 28, 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160128220431/http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/press-releases/ipcc-wg3-ar5-authors.pdf . dead .
  9. Web site: Edge Giulio Boccaletti member bio . January 13, 2016.
  10. Web site: H2O: The Molecule That Made Us Episode 1: Civilizations. 2021-07-03. Molecule That Made Us. en.
  11. Web site: Water by Giulio Boccaletti: 9781524748234 PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books. 2021-01-22. PenguinRandomhouse.com. en-US.
  12. Web site: Giulio Boccaletti TNC bio . January 13, 2016.
  13. The Renewable Energy Source That's About to Boom Again . . January 13, 2016.
  14. Web site: The Power of Rivers . January 13, 2016.
  15. Web site: Water Funds: Investing in Nature and Clean Water . . February 24, 2016.
  16. Web site: Water Funds:Investing in Nature and Clean Water . . January 13, 2016.
  17. News: With Water Crisis Here, Funds Part of Solution, Boccaletti Says . Charles Daly . Bloomberg News . August 17, 2015 . January 13, 2016.
  18. News: How we can make nature work for us . Eddy Njoroge and Giulio Boccaletti . Standard Media, Kenya . June 3, 2015 . January 13, 2016.
  19. News: Making Water Conservation Pay . Giulio Boccaletti . Project Syndicate . December 4, 2014 . January 13, 2016.
  20. News: As climate change bites, Kenya water fund offers hope to farmers . Megan Darby . Climate Change News . July 31, 2015 . January 13, 2016.
  21. News: Not all types of water projects should be considered green . Giulio Boccaletti, The Nature Conservancy . Environmental Finance . October 23, 2015 . January 13, 2016.
  22. Web site: How the UN's latest initiative could end the water crisis in 15 years . Thomson Reuters Foundation . July 23, 2015 . January 13, 2016.
  23. Web site: Dr Giulio Boccaletti . European Commission . May 7, 2011 . January 19, 2016.
  24. Web site: Dr Giulio Boccaletti . McKinsey . January 19, 2016.
  25. Web site: Climate Change and Water Supply . C-Span (GB begins speaking at 27:15) . November 23, 2009 . January 13, 2016.
  26. Web site: Giulio Boccaletti . Edge.org . January 13, 2016.
  27. Web site: A sound "much like a baroque flute" . Princeton . December 14, 1998 . January 13, 2016.
  28. Web site: Budrio Ocarina Group - Italy (A.Vivaldi Concerto per flauto archi e basso continuo F. VI n°8) . YouTube . May 22, 2009 . January 13, 2016.
  29. Web site: WEF Young Global Leaders Class of 2014 . January 6, 2016.
  30. Web site: WHOI 2000 Program in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics . January 6, 2016.
  31. Web site: Edge Foundation . January 6, 2016.
  32. Web site: goodreads.com . January 6, 2016.
  33. Web site: Harper Collins . January 6, 2016.
  34. academia.edu . February 22, 2016. Suhendini . Mentari .
  35. Web site: mckinsey.com . February 22, 2016.
  36. Web site: mckinsey.com . February 22, 2016.
  37. Web site: mckinsey.com . February 22, 2016.
  38. Web site: kyotoclub.org.com . February 22, 2016.
  39. Web site: smart2020.org . February 22, 2016 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110728032834/http://www.smart2020.org/_assets/files/03_Smart2020Report_lo_res.pdf . July 28, 2011 .
  40. Web site: mckinsey.com . February 22, 2016.

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