Declan Conway

Professor Conway is an interdisciplinary researcher concentrating on the interactions between climate and society. During 2009 – 2011 he held a part-time secondment with the UK Department for International Development as a Senior Research Fellow on climate change. He is Chair of the UK Programme Executive Board of UPGro, an interdisciplinary UK Research Council research programme on Unlocking the Potential for Groundwater in sub-Saharan Africa. He is a member of the NERC-ESRC-DFID Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation International Programme Advisory Committee. Declan is a Co-editor in Chief of Global Environmental Change (Elsevier) and holds Editorial positions with; Climate Change and Development (Earthscan) and Food Security: the science, sociology and economics of food production and access to food (Springer). He was a contributing Author to the IPCC Special Report on Extremes: Chapter 3 Changes in Climate Extremes and their Impacts on the Natural Physical Environment.His current research interests include China’s Food-Water-Energy Nexus and Water Security, Adaptation and Climate Change.

Research Interests

• Water security and climate change
• Adaptation and development
• Water-energy-food Nexus
• China and climate change
• Nile Basin and climate change