Roy Brouwer is Professor in the Department of Economics, University of Waterloo, Canada and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Environmental Economics, Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His main research interests are in environmental economics and integrated risk assessment.
In his work, he combines practical water policy experience (he worked five years as an economist in the Dutch Water Ministry) and scientific research (Wageningen Agricultural University, University of East Anglia, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, University of Waterloo).
He is founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Water Resources and Economics that continued in 2026 as Journal of Water Economics, member of the International Joint Commission’s Science Advisory Board (IJC-SAB) for the Great Lakes shared between Canada and the USA and the International Scientific Advisory Committee of the Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences (CRAES). In 2024, he received together with his coauthors the International Water Association (IWA) Best Scientific Book Prize for Resource Recovery from Water: Principles and Application. Between 2016 and 2026 he was also the Executive Director of the University of Waterloo’s Water Institute. See here the link to his personal web page.
Expertise
Environmental Economics, Water Economics, Non-Market Valuation, Discrete Choice Models, Hydro-Economic Modelling.
Education
2001: PhD Environmental Economics, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom.
1993: MSc Agricultural Economics, Wageningen Agricultural University, the Netherlands.
