R. Quentin Grafton, FASSA, is Professor of Economics; Australian Laureate Fellow; Convenor of the Water Justice Hub and the Geneva Actions on Human Water Security; and Director of the Centre for Water Economics, Environment and Policy at the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University. He currently serves as the Director of the Food, Energy, Environment and Water Network. Prof Grafton has previously served as the Chairholder, the UNESCO Chair in Water Economics and Transboundary Water Governance; Executive Director at the Australian National Institute of Public Policy; and President and Distinguished Fellow of the Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.