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 is the recipient of two honorary doctorates (from Memorial University in Newfoundland and the University of Victoria in British Columbia) and is the author or co-author of 14 books. Her latest books are: Blue Gold, The Battle to Stop Corporate Theft of the World’s Water (Tony Clarke) which has been published in 10 countries and Profit is Not the Cure: A Citizen’s Guide to Saving Medicare.