Leila M. Harris is a professor at IRES Institute on Resources Environment and Sustainability and with the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Harris’s work examines social, cultural, political-economic, institutional and equity dimensions of environmental and resource issues, particularly issues related to water politics, infrastructures, and governance.  She has worked in diverse contexts such as Turkey, South Africa, and Ghana and on important issues such as First Nations water security and inequities in Canadian water governance.