Experts & Speakers Faculty Profile
Elinor Ostrom
Professor of Public and Environmental Affairs
School of Public and Environmental Affairs
Director—Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Co-Director—CSIPEC, Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science, Professor of Public and Environmental Affairs
Director—Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Co-Director—Center for the Study of Institutions, Population, and Environmental Change, Office of Research and University Graduate School
IU Bloomington
Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science, Political Science Department
College of Arts and Sciences
Interests:
Developing nations, irrigation and induced water problems, poverty, third world countriesEducation:
- B.A. at University of California, Los Angeles, 1954
- M.A. at University of California, Los Angeles, 1962
- Ph.D. at University of California, Los Angeles, 1965
Background:
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Elinor Ostrom is director of the IU Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis and co-director of the Center for the Study of Institutions, Population and Environmental Change. Ostrom is the author of "Crafting Institutions for Self-Governing Irrigation Systems," an analysis and a proposal for a new strategy to successfully implement irrigation systems in the developing world.
