Gerald E. Galloway, Jr., Ph.D., P.E., Hon.D.WRE, Dist.M.ASCE, NAE

Gerald E. Galloway, Jr., Ph.D., P.E., Hon.D.WRE, Dist.M.ASCE, NAE is a Glenn L. Martin Institute Professor of Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and an Affiliate Professor, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, where his focus is on water resources policy and management. He is also a Visiting Scholar at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Institute for Water Resources and a Senior Consultant for Flood Map Modernization for the Michael Baker Corporation.

Prior to joining the University of Maryland, he was Vice President, Geospatial Strategies, for the ES3 Sector, Titan Corporation. From 1998-2003, he served as Secretary of the United States Section of the International Joint Commission (IJC), Washington, D.C., an independent bi-national organization charged with preventing and resolving transboundary air and water quality issues disputes between the U.S. and Canada under the Boundary Waters Treaty of 1909.

A civil engineer, public administrator, soldier, educator, and geographer, he has led and managed large organizations in successfully executing a variety of important activities. He has broad experience in dealing with water management issues both within the United States and internationally. He has served as a consultant to the Executive Office of the President, and has assisted the U.S. Water Resources Council, the World Bank, the Organization of American States, TVA, the Corps of Engineers, several states, and various other organizations in water resources related activities. In 1988 he was appointed by President Reagan to the seven member Mississippi River Commission and served on the Commission until 1995. From December 1993 to July 1994 he was assigned to the White House to lead the Interagency Floodplain Management Review Committee in assessing the causes of the 1993 Mississippi River floods and in proposing a long-term approach to floodplain management. In 1998, he was appointed by the President to serve as a member of the American Heritage Rivers Advisory Committee. As a member of the IJC staff, he was part of teams that prepared the Commission’s reports on the disastrous flooding in the Red River of the North in 1997 and the IJC’s report, Protection of the Waters of the Great Lakes, addressing principles to govern management of potential withdrawals of water from the Great Lakes. He was a member of a special working group that produced A New Framework for Planning the Future of Coastal Louisiana after the Hurricanes of 2005 and was the principal consultant to the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) for its report "Restoring Coastal Louisiana: Enhancing the Role of Engineering and Science in the Restoration Program."

He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy with a Bachelor of Science degree and was commissioned into the Army as a second lieutenant in the Corps of Engineers. During a 38 year career in the military he served in various command and staff assignments in Germany, Southeast Asia, and the United States. From 1974 to 1977, he commanded the Army Corps of Engineers District in Vicksburg, MS, managing a multi-state water resources development program that included the operation of seven large dams and the construction of two locks and dams. He has also been a member of the faculty of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, serving successively as Professor of Geography and Computer Science, and Professor and founding Head of the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering. In 1990 he was promoted to the grade of brigadier general and appointed the ninth Dean of the Academic Board (Chief Academic Officer) of the Military Academy. He retired from active duty in 1995. From 1995 to 1998, he served as Dean of the faculty and Academic programs at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, National Defense University, Washington, D.C.

Dr. Galloway was elected to ASCE Honorary Membership in 2006 for more than four decades of distinguished service and leadership in water resource policy and management as a military officer, professor, dean, consultant, and author, as well as for outstanding contribution to the reformation of the future of civil engineering education.

He has been a member of seven National Academies committees studying complex water resources management issues, including U.S. ocean research science and technology priorities, river science activities of the U.S. Geological Survey, the scientific basis for adaptive management of the Missouri River, and navigation on the Mississippi River, and was chair of a National Academies committee studying logistics support for the future U.S. Army. He is also a member of the National Research Council’s Water Science and Technology Board. He is a past member of the Board the Hudson River Environmental Society and of the Hudson River Foundation for Science and Technology. A Fellow and Life Member of ASCE, he is currently vice-chair of a task group reviewing educational requirements for professional practice. He has served on the ASCE Committee on Standards of Practice, the Task Force on first professional degree, was chair of the ASCE Committee on Engineering Responsibility, which proposed an 8th Environmental Ethics Canon for the Society, and a member of the 1985 ASCE Task Force on Federal Water Policy. He was general chair of the 2001 ASCE Environment and Water Resources Institute Conference on Integrated Trans-boundary Water Management. He has been North Atlantic Regional Vice President for the Society of American Military Engineers (SAME) and Chair of SAME’s Professional Development and Education Committee and was elected a Fellow in 1996. From 1989 to 1990 he was President of the Universities Council on Water Resources, an association of nearly 100 universities and colleges active in water resources research and education. From 1990 to 1996, he was a Councilor of the American Geographical Society. He is a member of the Association of American Geographers, where he was Co-Founder and Chair of its Water Resources Specialty Group, the American Water Resources Association (AWRA), serving as General Chair of its 2002 and 2005 National Water Policy Dialogues and, in 2006, as President-elect, and the International Water Resources Association (IWRA). He is also a trustee of the Natural Heritage Institute and a Director of the Great Lakes Observing System Corporation. He has testified before committees of the U.S. Congress, and state legislatures, appeared on national television and radio and has spoken to numerous organizations in the U.S. and abroad. He has lectured and written extensively on the management of water resources and public involvement in water resources decision making.

He holds a master's degree in Engineering from Princeton; a master's in Public Administration from Penn State (Capitol Campus), a master's in Military Art and Science from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and a Ph.D. in Geography (Water Resources) from the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill). He is also a graduate of the Army War College, the Army Command and General Staff College; the Army’s Engineer School, and the Ranger and Airborne courses of the Army Infantry School. He has been awarded the Army Distinguished Service Medal, the Legion of Merit with four oak leaf clusters, the Bronze Star, the Air Medal with oak leaf cluster, the Meritorious Service Medal with one oak leaf cluster, and several other medals and campaign ribbons.

In 1991, he was presented the SAME Bliss Medal for contributions to engineering education and, in 1995, the Silver DeFleury Medal by the Army Engineer Association. In 1998, he was given the Association of State Flood Managers’ Goddard-White Award. In 2001, ASCE named him the Civil Government Engineer of the year. In 2002, ASCE presented him the Presidents’ Award for service to the country. In 2004 he received the U.S. Geological Survey’s John Wesley Powell Award, the Golden Eagle Award from the SAME Academy of Fellows, and the Julian Hinds Award. In 2005 Dr. Galloway was elected to the grade of Honorary Diplomate by the American Academy of Water Resource Engineers. He is a member of Phi Kappa Phi, national academic honor society, and the National Academy of Engineering.