Prof. Braga was elected to his first three-year mandate as President of the World Water Council in November 2012 and was reelected for a second term in November 2015. Before this, from 2006 to 2012, he served as Vice-President of the World Water Council and chaired the International Steering Committee (ISC) of the 6th and 7th editions of the World Water Forum in Marseille (France) and Daegu-Gyeongbuk (Korea). Prof. Braga is the author of 25 books and chapters of books.
Gary Wilson is an independent journalist who focuses on the Great Lakes and related environmental, economic and social issues.
He wrote the Chicago View column for Great Lakes Echo and served as a commentator for Detroit Public Television’s Great Lakes Week coverage. Gary comments for the Great Lakes Month in Review segment on WKAR in Lansing and is an occasional contributor to WMUK in Kalamazoo.
Though Gary covers a wide range of Great Lakes issues, he is best known for his coverage of Great Lakes restoration, the Waukesha water diversion and the Toledo and Flint water crises.
Jim Malewitz reports on the environment for Bridge. Based in Lansing, but with plans to scour both peninsulas, he is looking for stories about how public policy, climate change and other phenomena affect the state’s trove of natural resources – all while leaders tout the “Pure Michigan” brand.
Eileen Wray-McCann is a writer, director and narrator who co-founded Circle of Blue. During her 13 years at Interlochen Public Radio, a National Public Radio affiliate in Northern Michigan, Eileen produced and hosted regional and national programming. She’s won Telly Awards for her scriptwriting and documentary work, and her work with Circle of Blue follows many years of independent multimedia journalistic projects and a life-long love of the Great Lakes. She holds a BA and MA radio and television from the University of Detroit. Eileen is currently moonlighting as an audio archivist and enjoys traveling through time via sound.
Randall Hackley is a former Associated Press and Bloomberg correspondent who has reported from 18 countries across four continents. A native of Los Angeles, he is a University of Colorado graduate who worked for newspapers in California and Florida before being posted to Texas, New York, Buenos Aires, Zurich and now London. He founded Bloomberg's water news initiative and has been listed one of the top media water influencers for two years. He has helped the World Bank edit news about its Africa water programs and written for the Stockholm International Water Institute's WaterFront magazine. An avid hiker, he recently trekked England's coast-to-coast path from the Irish Sea to the North Sea and before that completed the Tour du Mont Blanc trail from France to Italy, Switzerland and back to France. He is on a mission to visit as many glaciers as possible and is fond of both Mouton Cadet and dulce de leche.
