约翰·弗莱克在水政策和治理，新墨西哥州水资源计划的大学主任的实践教授。他的事业是花费在新闻，自20世纪80年代集中学和政治与政策过程之间的界面上，特别强调气候和水在美国西南部。He was the Water Resource program’s writer-in-residence for three years before transitioning to academia full time in 2016. In the field of water resources, his primary interest is in nurturing the collaborative water governance needed to adapt to scarcity in the southwestern United States as populations grow while climate change reduces water supplies. That goal animates the Water Resources Program, where he and his colleagues work with graduate students who will become the region’s future water managers. In both the Water Resources Program and the Department of Economics, he also works on translational activities — helping make the technical work done in academia of maximum benefit to political and policy processes.