Larry Swatuk (PhD) is Professor of International Development in the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development (SEED) at the University of Waterloo, Canada. He is also Extraordinary Professor in the Institute for Water Studies, University of Western Cape, South Africa, and Associate Researcher in the Bonn International Center for Conversion in Bonn, Germany. Prior to joining the University of Waterloo, he was Associate Professor of Natural Resources Governance at the Okavango Research Institute in Maun, Botswana. Dr. Swatuk's current research centres on the ways and means to avoid the unintended negative consequences of state-led climate action. In 2018 he published three books: Water and Southern Africa (UKZN Press); Water, Energy, Food and People across the Global South: the Nexus in an Era of Climate Change (Macmillan); and Water, Climate Change and the Boomerang Effect: unintentional consequences for resource insecurity (Routledge).