Tara Hadler is a Canadian graduate student studying sustainable development at the University of Basel in Switzerland. Currently, she is working with the Alberta Water Research Institute – part of Alberta Innovates – Energy and Environment Solutions – on improving water management practices through an assessment of virtual water trade in Alberta’s irrigation districts. The province’s leadership on water issues attracted Hadler to work in Alberta.
Her work with the Institute subsequently lead to the opportunity of a lifetime – the chance to go to Antarctica with a handful of the world’s leading experts on sustainability. Now, she brings this experience home to Alberta.
Peter Brabeck-Letmathe led the Nestlé Group from 1997 to 2008, first as CEO, till 2005, and then as Chairman and CEO. In April 2008, he handed over the office of CEO and is now Chairman of Nestlé S.A.
Born in 1944 in Austria, Peter Brabeck-Letmathe graduated from the University of World Trade in Vienna with a degree in Economics. After joining the Nestlé Group in 1968, he spent a significant part of his career in Latin America, moving from sales manager and marketing director in Chile, to CEO of Nestlé Ecuador and later to Chairman/CEO of Nestlé Venezuela.
Established in 2007, the Alberta Water Research Institute is a leader and facilitator of knowledge and research for water policy, practices and management for the province of Alberta, Canada.
Funded by the Government of Alberta, and administered through Alberta Innovates – Energy and Environment Solutions, the Alberta Water Research Institute coordinates all knowledge and research activities towards fulfilling the three goals of the Alberta’s water strategy, Water for Life: A Strategy for Sustainability of:
The Water Research Institute is also a knowledge broker, committed to:
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