Todd Haydn Votteler, Ph.D., Collaborative Water Resolution LLC
BIO
Todd is an experienced environmental professional with expertise in conflict resolution, stakeholder engagement, and policy development. Votteler is a co-founder and the Editor-in-Chief of the Texas Water Journal and the Texas+Water, and the host of Talk+Water podcast. Todd is a Fellow of the Meadows Center for Water and the Environment at Texas State University, a Visiting Scholar at The Bureau of Economic Geology at The University of Texas at Austin, a member of the Advisory Committee for the Permanent Forum of Binational Waters, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Whitefish Lake Institute. He is also a Partner at Four Worlds Consulting, where he helps stakeholders resolve water and environmental conflicts. He holds a B.S. in Natural Resources from The University of the South, an M.S. in Natural Resources from The University of Michigan, and
a Ph.D. in Environmental Geography from Texas State University. Todd has also earned
certifications in Integrated Water Management, Water Reforms & Governance, Water Diplomacy,
as well as Environmental Collaboration from the U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict
Resolution. He is a graduate of the Governor’s Executive Development Program in Texas.
Todd has been involved in many crucial conservation projects, including serving as the Federal
Special Master for the Edwards Aquifer Endangered Species Act litigation, Sierra Club v. San
Antonio, and negotiating an agreement between The Aransas Project and GBRA resolving a conflict over surface water use and potential impacts to the endangered whooping crane. He was co-trainer for the 2018 Fellows Program at The University of Texas at Austin School of Law’s Center for Public Policy Dispute Resolution, the 2018 and 2020 for the Water Conflict and Transformation Workshop at the AWRA Annual Conference. In 2019, Votteler lectured in China on transboundary water conflicts. From 2000 to 2017, Votteler worked for the Guadalupe–Blanco River Authority where he was Executive Manager of Science, Intergovernmental Relations, and Policy.