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Career arc/highlights:* Graduated Yale, studied abroad Oxford. Prize-winning investigative reporter in Washington, DC.* White House appointee to US Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt on water, dams, climate, wildfire. * Senior advisor, communications, World Commission on Dams under Nelson Mandela.* Strategic communications consultant to global corporations, agencies, NGOs on natural resources.* Award-winning author of books, articles on successful water, fisheries, energy conservation strategies. * Framed marine conservation projects and program at Environmental Defense Fund.* Editor, The Source, print & online magazine offering pragmatic news for 50,000 water professionals.* Designed & taught provocative interdisciplinary courses as visiting professor @ Whitman, Wesleyan.* Founded AquaShares, first rights-based online conservation market to trade water-saving credits.AquaShares Inc. helps water agencies in the U.S. and overseas solve their "tragedy of the commons" through equitable and efficient water savings markets. A leader in the creation of natural resource conservation markets for fresh water, forests, and marine fisheries, Workman wrote Heart of Dryness: How the last bushmen can help us endure the coming age of permanent drought, winner best book of the year the Society of Environmental Journalists; now co-authoring Sea Change: The quiet fishing revolution that is replenishing life offshore -- and on.In 1990 Workman graduated cum laude with a B.A. in history from Yale, has been a visiting professor at leading institutions, including Wesleyan University and Whitman College. But he earned his real education by blowing up dams, releasing wolves, igniting prescribed wildland fires, guiding safaris, smuggling water to besieged indigenous dissidents after breaking down alone in Africa's Kalahari Desert, and becoming a father (not in that order).Workman is also a principal at Confluence Communications, a free-lance policy analysis, writing, and speaking consultancy that articulates nuanced arguments to build resilience in water, forests, fisheries resources. He has over 25 years of experience in strategic communications for global corporations, agencies, NGOs, and media outlets. He is fluent in English and Spanish, certified by Stanford in writing, and qualified to advance environmental, social, and governance (ESG) outcomes.
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FounderAquashares Inc. Sep 2010 - PresentAquaShares helps water districts, basins, agencies, utilities and companies solve their most pressing "tragedy of the [water] commons." To do so, we custom design, build and operate online cap-and-trade water savings markets, desmonstrating successful project outcomes from California to Morocco.
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PrincipalConfluence Communications 2003 - PresentFree-lance policy analysis, writing, speaking consultancy articulates nuanced arguments to build resilience in water, forests, fisheries resources amidst rapidly changing climate. Clients include:• Tropical Forest Alliance Advance progressive and positive (vs. polarizing/doom-and-gloom) stories, opeds, blogs, on public/private collaboration in pragmatic approach to the sustainable development, conservation, and restoration of primary forest landscapes in Latin America, Central Africa and Southeast Asia. Removing deforestation from supply chains.• The World Conservation Union Synthesize years of experience from developing world to shape Hydro-diplomacy to ensure water security via bottom-up empowerment, tap local wisdom of crowds• Impact-Free Water Develop modular wave-powered energy and potable water solutions for a thirsty planet. Director of global marketing, communications, positioning, brand management. • World Economic Forum Integrate views, publish landmark Water Security: The Water-Food-Energy-Climate Nexus.• Stockholm International Water Institute Engaged water policy specialists to produce A Vital Confluence project on development, allocation and valuation of scarce water resources. • World Water Council Synthesized pragmatic water governance experience of 30 countries into global synthesis.• Natural Heritage Institute Shaped investment decisions and raised funds for projects in the Colorado, Krishna, Volta, Nile, Mekong and Yellow Rivers.• USAID-Nexant Develop market strategy to break subsidized water & energy pumping and waste.• German Development Agency (GTZ) Produced four-part documentary on trans-boundary river basins Africa to secure water.• World Wildlife Fund /European Union Developed & implemented outreach strategy to reverse economic incentives that drive rainforest burning
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Visiting ProfessorWhitman College Aug 2012 - Dec 2023Walla Walla, Wa, UsDesigned and taught introductory and advanced courses on how societies can slow, stop, and reverse the depletion of natural resources: * "Owning the Wild: A rights-based paradigm to replenish water, rainforests, fisheries & biodiversity."* "Governance from Below: Designing & operating an equitable groundwater market."* "Turning the Tide: A pragmatic, incentives-driven way for coastal communities to end overfishing."* "When Arab Springs Run Dry: How trade in virtual water can ease political tensions in the Middle East."* "What Goes Up May Come Down: The economy and ecology beneath the dam removal movement."* "Fight Fire with Finance: Restoring balance to forests through water and carbon market incentives."* "Biodiversity Meets Blockchain: Can crypto technology help rewild our landscapes and coastlines?" -
Deputy Director -- Catch Share Design CenterEnvironmental Defense Fund Jun 2012 - Jan 2020New York, New York, UsAfter serving as deputy director of the EDF Ocean's Team's Solutions Center, I have spent the last few years researching, reporting, and co-authoring a book with Amanda Leland on the quiet, rights-based renaissance in sustainable seafood harvesting. Our book has the working title: Sea Change: The fishermen's revolution that is restoring life offshore -- and on. -
Founding EditorThe Source, Magazine Of The International Water Association Oct 2015 - Nov 2018The Source is a print and online magazine that we established to bring practical knowledge to the international water professional. Over the course of more than a dozen quarterly issues, we ran hundreds of feature stories, provocative interviews, substantial reports, book reviews, and insightful analyses. The Source expands the scope of urban technical systems to reveal the wider dimensions and innovations taking shape through digital water and groundwater recharge, customer behavior and human rights, natural infrastructure and nanotechnology, inter-city trading and climate adaptation strategies. Set in the context of sustainable development, each issue highlights freshwater's inextricably links with urban development, public health, industrial business, energy demand, environmental resilience, and agricultural food production.
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AuthorHeart Of Dryness: How The Last Bushmen Can Help Us Endure The Coming Age Of Permanent Drought Apr 2009 - Dec 2012This nonfiction narrative set in the Kalahari dramatizes the timeless struggle over water, the fulcrum of political power. Facing drought, scarcity and climate change the besieged indigenous Bushmen use voluntary survival strategies while Botswana’s government enforces regulatory rule. Their rivalry foreshadows our world, where two in three thirsty humans will soon endure shortages, resource conflict, a $900 billion market, and a global fight for water as a human right.
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Visiting Professor Of Environmental StudiesWesleyan University Aug 2011 - May 2012Middletown, Ct, UsFor the 20011-2012 academic year, Wesleyan University's College of the Environment asked me to join their new and exciting interdisciplinary approach to water, drawing on liberal arts -- history, anthropology, philosophy, economics, law, art, politics, behavioral psychology etc. -- as well as traditional sciences, to convey and discuss our evolving relationship with this source of all life. I was collaborating with critical leaders as we unlock the true value of "priceless" resources like water and human ingenuity. -
TrusteeInstitute Of Current World Affairs Dec 2008 - Jun 2011The Institute of Current World Affairs provides promising individuals with an opportunity to develop a deep understanding of an issue, country, or region outside the United States and to share that understanding with a wider public. ICWA invests in people.
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FellowPerc 2005 - 2007Internalized market mechanisms into plans for dam removal and water/energy trading ventures.
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FellowInstitute Of Current World Affairs Dec 2001 - Feb 2004INSTITUTE OF CURRENT WORLD AFFAIRS 2002-2004African CorrespondentConducted independent critique of international water sharing in arid regions.Dispatched 24 monthly essays w/photos for strategic policy options (titles below).Profiled communities, irrigators, society and nations confronting climate change.Filed datelines from Namib, Kalahari, Sahara and Negev deserts; Cape to Cairo.Water Meter Wars: ‘Privatization, Protests and Renegade Plumbers.’Smuggling to the San: ‘Water as a weapon in the Central Kalahari.’Rules of the Game: ‘Rifles, rhinos and access to water.’Potty (Re) Training: ‘Climate, scarcity changes how Africa pees and poops.’Of Dams & Disease: ‘Triage in an H2O-Negative, HIV-Positive Landscape.’Shattered Nilometers: ‘After 5,200 years of top-down rule water re-democratizes Egypt’Holy Fire, Sacred Water: ‘Namibia’s Himba Caught Between Dam & Dry Place’The Coming Hydrocracy: ‘Arid Africa as the Water Runs Out’
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Sr AdvisorWorld Commission On Dams 2000 - 2002World Bank, World Commission on Dams Cape Town, South AfricaPrepare, edit, position, market & launch unprecedented global synthesis project to establish new approach for developing water and energy resources in a changing climate.Direct strategic outreach consensus product through international outlets, channels.Prepare, deliver tactical speeches, presentations, interviews to diverse interests.
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Special Assistant - SpeechwriterUs Department Of The Interior 1994 - 1999Planned events, advance research, position papers and speeches prepared from U.S. Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt
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James Workman Education Details
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Yale UniversityHistory -
Property And Environment Research CenterConservation Markets
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University Of OxfordHistory
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Stanford UniversityCreative Writing
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