Quentin is a Professor of Economics and Chairholder of the UNESCO Chair in Water Economics and Transboundary Water Governance. He is an Australian Laureate Fellow, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, a former President (2017-18) of the Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society (AARES) and a Distinguished Fellow of AARES. He is the recipient of several awards for his water-related research including the Eureka Science Prize for Water Research and Innovation. He previously served as Chief Economist and Foundation Executive Director of the Australian Bureau of Resources and Energy Economics and as Executive Director of the Australian National Institute for Public Policy. He currently serves as Co-Director of the Food, Energy, Environment and Water (FE2W) Network and Convenor of the Water Justice Hub. His collaborative research, as part of the IWF, is focused on drinking water quality and water planning in the Northern Murray-Darling Basin.

To work with very capable and talented people and to do research that supports water justice is a real opportunity offered by IWF.