Maude Barlow is the National Chairperson of The Council of Canadians, Canada's largest public advocacy organization with over 100,000 members. She is a Director with the International Forum on Globalization, a San Francisco based research and educational institution opposed to economic globalization and co-founder of the Blue Planet Project, an international civil society movement to stop the commodification of water. Maude will be lecturing on the Political Struggle for the World's Water.