Chuck Howard is the past President of Charles Howard & Associates, Ltd. a consulting engineering company that he founded in 1975 to stimulate research and development in the field of water resources systems analysis and to bring the results into engineering practice. Mr. Howard's career has combined the challenges of owning and managing a successful specialized consulting engineering company, with a life dedicated to innovation and advancement of his profession. He retired from the company in 2001 and is now a senior advisor on water operations and planning for water and power utilities, provincial, state, and federal governments in Canada and the U.S.A., the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the World Bank.

Chuck is the author of many engineering reports and articles in technical journals. In 1998 the American Society of Civil Engineers presented him their highest "water" honor, the Julian Hinds Award for leadership and technical achievement in advancing the state of the art in water resources management, and in 2000 he received Life Membership in the society. He is an Associate Editor of the ASCE Journal of Water Resources Planning.

His contributions to the profession include outside examiner on university thesis committees and advice to the US National Science Foundation university research program on semi-arid hydrology. He has served the US National Research Council as a Board member and Committee member.

He is currently an advisor to the Bonneville Power Administration on Optimizing Operation of the Columbia River System, and provides technical workshops on river, reservoir, and hydropower operations for the World Bank and Natural Resources Canada.

Chuck is a registered civil engineer in British Columbia and Washington, with a B.S. (1960) and an M.Sc. (1962) from the University of Alberta and an M.S. (1966) from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.