Speakers

David Harrison

Senior Water Resource Consultant, Global Freshwater Team, The Nature Conservancy

David Harrison is a water resources lawyer in Boulder, Colorado. He is of counsel with the firm of Moses, Wittemyer, Harrison and Woodruff, PC, and he also works as a consultant to the Nature Conservancy and as senior advisor to the Global Freshwater Team, formerly the Freshwater Initiative, of which he was a cofounder. In that connection he works with the strategic group on ecologically sustainable hydropower. He is currently focusing on the application of that approach at several demonstration projects, including the Yangtze River Basin in China and the Zambezi River Basin in southern Africa. In addition, he works with the International Hydropower Association examining ways to develop global standards and practices for sustainable hydropower. He has coauthored several professional articles on water resource matters.