Professor of Law and founding director of the Environmental and Climate Justice Center at Howard University School of Law, Dr. Waterhouse is an international expert on environmental law and environmental justice, as well as reparations and redress for historic injustices.

From 2021 to 2023, he served at the United States Environmental Protection Agency as Deputy Assistant Administrator for the Office of Land and Emergency Management, overseeing national programmes for toxic waste site remediation, the cleanup and redevelopment of contaminated sites, hazardous and solid waste management, chemical plant safety, and emergency response.

He lectures globally on climate justice, reparations and reconciliation, and group-based inequality. In 2018, he completed a Fulbright research fellowship in Brazil, and his views have been published in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, among others.

Dr. Waterhouse is a member of the International Sustainable Development Research Society and of the National Academy of Sciences Climate Crossroads Advisory Committee, and a board member of the Environmental Law Institute.