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Sharlene Leurig
Senior Manager, Ceres
- twitter: @sleurig
Sharlene works with insurers and water service providers to build business models that are resilient to weather extremes, climate change and resource depletion. Her focus includes the role insurers and risk modelers play in driving climate adaptation and climate investment risks and opportunities with a particular focus on municipal bonds. She also works with drinking water, stormwater and wastewater service providers to develop physical infrastructure and rate structures that enable development of sustainable water systems.
Before coming to Ceres, Sharlene was a fellow in the MIT-USGS Science Impact Collaborative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she focused on the role of science in multi-stakeholder resource planning and dispute resolution. Her professional experience also includes intellectual property prosecution at the United States Patent and Trademark Office where she specialized in semiconductors and nanotechnology.
She holds a BA in Physics and English from Washington University in St. Louis and a Master in City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Recent Blog Posts
Writers On The Range: Big water projects should make Westerners queasy
Across maps of the arid West, expensive water pipelines are being plotted to meet the region's profound need for water. But what if there's not enough demand for water to pay for these projects?
Deseret News: Proposed Lake Powell pipeline is bad bet for Utah taxpayers
Across the West, proposed high-stakes projects to capture water resources are generating well-deserved controversy because every one of them ignores cheaper, more sensible alternatives that are more sustainable in the long term.
Las Vegas Sun: Cutting water use is the best bet for Southern Nevada
Much of Nevada’s livelihood comes from gambling, but some things are too precious and too costly to gamble on. Unfortunately, gambling is exactly what the state’s largest provider of that most precious desert resource – water – is doing. The stakes are high for residents and businesses.
