Presentation from Dr Charles Larkin, from the Institute of Policy Research at Bath University, on ‘Optimising Water Quality returns from the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy’. A panel of experts will respond to Dr Larkin’s research (commissioned by An Fóram Uisce) followed by a Q&A moderated by Dr Tom Collins, Chair of An Fóram Uisce.

The Panellists

Charles Larkin - Director of Research, Institute for Policy Research, University of Bath, Bath, UK Research Associate, Trinity College Dublin Adjunct Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University,

Tom Collins - CHAIR An Fóram Uisce

Alan Matthews - Trinity College Dublin, Professor Emeritus of European Agricultural Policy Past President, European Association of Agricultural Economists, Member of Climate Change Advisory Council

John Fitzgerald - Honorary Fellow of TCD, an Adjunct Professor in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University College Dublin and Chair of the Irish government’s Climate Change Advisory Council.

Lee Ann Jackson - Head of the Agro-food Trade and Markets Division in the OECD's Trade and Agriculture Directorate

Michele McCormack - Economist with the Agricultural Catchments Programme Teagasc

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