Reactivating on X after a long pause in order to announce that I have a new job, with a clear objective: a water-secure world. Thrilled and honored to begin service today as Executive Secretary & CEO of the Global Water Partnership. Global Water Partnership GWP.org

Proud to celebrate International Women's Day by co-authoring an article with my colleague Jaehyang So, Chair of the GWP Technical Committee. Please check out "The Ripple Effect: Investing in Women, Water and the World". #WomensDay2024 Global Water Partnership gwp.org/en/About/more/…

Great to meet with World Meteorological Organization SG Celeste Saulo yesterday. In addition to renewing our MOU we discussed how bringing actors together creates greater impact, and WMO’s important additional role as an original Sponsoring Partner of GWP. Global Water Partnership

By investing in water - in diplomacy, planning, economic development, education and so much more - we come together, build trust, create the conditions for peace. If we don’t, we set the stage for conflict. The choice is obvious: prioritise water. un.org/sustainabledev…

Don’t let this headline fool you. The threat of drought has enormous economic and health consequences, and is growing, as this summary of city-level problems in Latin America summarises well. Want more info on drought? Visit the IWRMActionHub.org theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

”The rains this year began late and were lower than average. In February…parts of Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Angola, Mozambique and Botswana received a fifth of the typical rainfall.” #Drought is devastating. Learn more at GWP’s IWRMActionHub.org nytimes.com/2024/04/18/cli…

Excited to be be speaking on energy, water, and inter-generational partnership at European Sustainable Energy Week - live, now! #EUSEW2024 interactive.eusew.eu/eusew-2024/live

Day 1 of #WorldWaterWeek and GWP is ready! Check out our events, follow the hybrid ones online, info here: gwp.org/en/About/more/… Global Water Partnership

Attending #WorldWaterWeek, I am reminded by Prof Kenzo Hiroki of the Bandung Water Summit which linked peace and water in a call by heads of state, drawing on a 1955 summit that proposed a global “live and let live” philosophy. We need more of that! —> GWP.org

Dear friends: I have retired. After 44 yrs in professional work, 36 dedicated to #sustainability, I left my role as Executive Secretary & CEO of GWP early due to illness. So proud of my team. So grateful for my career. Please stay in touch. More info: alanatkisson.com/2025/01/01/ann…

Reactivating my account in recognition of the 80th anniversary of the first use of #nuclearweapons at #Hiroshima. 70000 died instantly. As many as 200000 in total including radiation victims. From the first primitive a-bomb. Now we have thousands. May they never, ever be used.

The day after my post on #Hiroshima and plea/prayer/hope/demand that #nuclearweapons never again be used, I was so pleased to see this photographic essay on the city today, in the Guardian. Peace, in pictures. theguardian.com/artanddesign/g…

Honored to be a guest on "The Mastery Effect", a fascinating podcast hosted by Ms. Poorani Thanusha and Dr. Ramesh Ramachandra. Focus: change, #sustainability, AI, and the human challenge making transformation happen in large organisations. youtube.com/watch?v=VvHiF_…

This is me. Talking. With two really interesting and powerful women who are leaders in Asia, on #sustainability and #systems change. m.youtube.com/watch?v=VvHiF_…

In case you missed my keynote on "Future Thinking," it has now been published as a commentary in the "ROSA Journal" (an academic journal). scienceasset.com/journal/rosa/v…

Uh, WHAT? “As late as 1975, General Motors was blaming the Endangered Species Act for transmission problems in the cars it sold. The automatic transmission fluid had been made of sperm whale oil, and the company saw no easy alternative.” File: Weird facts theguardian.com/news/2025/sep/…

Did you see this news? The dodo has always been, for me, a symbol of stupid, human-caused extinction. I always believed we'd learn how to reverse it. Just not so soon. Next step (which I predicted in 1999): genetic uplift? It deserves to be made smarter. theguardian.com/science/2025/s…

”One of the most important observations is that goodness is not closely related to intelligence.” Very interesting conversation between Yuval Noah Harari, Rory Stewart and Maria Ressa on the times we’re living in. theguardian.com/books/2025/oct…

This article might be boring. But it's important to me. alanatkisson.com/2025/10/07/loy…

"Baltic Futures = Europe's Future". Want to understand the future of Europe? Read this book. I just reviewed it on my blog. Well done, Oliver Moody alanatkisson.com/2025/10/15/bal…