Maude Barlow

Maude Victoria Barlow (born May 24, 1947) is a Canadian author and activist. She is a founding member and former board chair of The Council of Canadians, a citizens' advocacy organization. She is also the co-founder of the Blue Planet Project, which works internationally for the human right to water. Barlow chairs the board of Washington-based Food & Water Watch, serves on the board of advisors to the Global Alliance on the Rights of Nature, was a founding member of the San Francisco–based International Forum on Globalization, and was a councillor with the Hamburg-based World Future Council. She was the chancellor of Brescia University College at Western University for three years starting in 2020. In 2008/2009, she was Senior Advisor on Water to the 63rd President of the United Nations General Assembly.