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Dr. Krantzberg is Professor and Program lead for the Master’s of Engineering and Public Policy in the School of Engineering Practice and Technology at McMaster University offering Canada’s first Master’s Degree in Engineering and Public Policy. Gail completed her M.Sc. and Ph.D. at the University of Toronto in environmental science and freshwaters. She worked for the Ontario Ministry of Environment from 1988 to 2001, as Coordinator of Great Lakes Programs, and Senior Policy Advisor on Great Lakes. Gail is the Canadian Lead Researcher for the Global Centre for Climate Change Impacts on Transboundary Waters. She is a former Board member of the Great Lakes Observing system, president of the International of Great Lakes Research, Board Member of the Canadian Water Foundation, Board member of Georgian Bay Forever, member of the International Joint Commission’s Water Quality Board, Sediment Priority Action Committee, Indicators Implementation Task Force, and Council of Great Lakes Research Managers. Dr. Krantzberg was the Director of the Great Lakes Regional Office of the International Joint Commission from 2001 to 2005. In 2007 she was appointed as an adjunct faculty member of the United Nations University Institute for Water and Environmental Health and participated in the twinning of the Laurentian and African Great Lakes (principally Lake Victoria). She is currently the Canadian CoChair of the IJC’s Science Advisory Board. Gail has co-authored and edited 9 books and more than 200 scientific and policy articles on issues pertaining to ecosystem quality and sustainability and is a frequent speaker to media and the public. Her research interests include investigating Great Lakes governance capacity, analyzing interjurisdictional co-management arrangements internationally for application to the Great Lakes regime, and methods to better integrate science and engineering in policy formulation and decision making.