Selected to serve as a Fellow in Harvard’s Advanced Leadership Initiative, a year-long multidisciplinary program designed to tap the experience of a socially conscious generation of leaders to fill critical leadership gaps in solving major social issues. The 2015 cohort includes 43 people from around the world seeking to find ways to tackle systemic problems such as poverty, global health, environmental degradation, and basic education. My focus is on the water-energy-food nexus and the specific challenges presented by rise of global megacities in emerging markets.