A recipient of Sweden’s Right Livelihood Award (the “Alternative Nobel”) and a Lannan Cultural Freedom Fellowship, Maude Barlow is head of the Council of Canadians, Canada’s largest public advocacy organization, and founder of the Blue Planet Project. She is the author of sixteen books, including Blue Gold – published in over fifty countries – and is on the board of Food and Water Watch and the International Forum on Globalisation. She lives in Ottawa, Canada.