Renee J. Robins is the executive director of the Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food Security Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She works closely with the lab’s faculty director to develop and manage the lab’s activities, priorities and strategy, including new funding opportunities and international collaborations. Since 1998, Robins has worked on the conception, launch and development of a number of large interdisciplinary, international and partnership-based research and education collaborations at MIT and elsewhere—including programs at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the International Honors Program—and has done program design and strategy consulting for Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique, Morocco.