Banu Örmeci is a Canada Research Professor and Jarislowsky Chair in Water and Global Health in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Director of the Global Water Institute at Carleton Univeristy. Banu has been a faculty member at Carleton since 2005 and served in several administrative roles and on important committees over the years including previously serving on Carleton’s Senate for three years and the Board of Governors as the Senate representative.

Banu currently serves on various boards and management committees of international organizations in water safety, sanitation and health issues which is her area of research including the International Water Association (IWA), Women in Science and Engineering Ottawa Chapter, Canadian Association on Water Quality, Inter-American Network of Academies of Science (IANAS) and Water Environment Association of Ontario.