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Cynthia Truelove is the Senior Water Policy Analyst in the Policy and Planning Division of the California Public Utilities Commission, a position which she has held since August, 2008. She is actively engaged in enhancing the Commission’s water policy initiatives across the arenas of water conservation, the water-energy nexus , and water climate change and is particularly engaged in building collaborative water policy and program efforts across the State’s water management and regulatory agencies as well as across both municipal and Investor Owned water utility sectors.

She has worked across North and South America in environmental and water and natural resource planning, as well as in the research interface between social, ecological, and global economic restructuring. Dr. Truelove has held a wide range of positions from her tenure as Plan Administrator of the nation’s largest public sector multiple species habitat conservation plan to Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology, Comparative Political Economy, and Latin American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She holds a Ph.D. in the Sociology of Comparative and International Development from The Johns Hopkins University as well as a Masters in International Studies and Economics from The Johns Hopkins University’s School for Advanced International Studies.