Hawaiʻi Book and Music Festival
Giulio Boccaletti is an expert on natural resource security and environmental sustainability. Trained as a physicist and climate scientist, he earned his PhD from Princeton, where he was a NASA Earth Systems Science Fellow. He has been a research scientist at MIT, a partner of McKinsey & Company, and the chief strategy officer of The Nature Conservancy. Boccaletti is the author of Water, A Biography (Pantheon, 2021).

Live Online Event
Water & Civilization: A Planetary Experiment
Friday, October 21, 8:00 AM
Special Guests: Kamanamaikalani Beamer, Dana Naone Hall Chair in Hawaiian Studies, Literature, and the Environment; Ernie Lau, Chief Engineer of the Honolulu Board of Water Supply; and Kapua‘ala Sproat, Director, Ka Huli Ao Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law (moderator)
Sponsors: Hawai’i Book and Music Festival, Scholars Strategy Network
