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Board of Governors

IWMI Boad 2024
IWMI Board of Governors, May 2024.

Members

Simi Kamal (Pakistan)
Chair, IWMI Board of Governors
Chairperson, Hisaar Foundation		Henk Ovink (The Netherlands)
Member, IWMI Board of Governors
Executive Director and founding Commissioner for the Global Commission on the Economics of Water
Akiça Bahri (Tunisia)
Member, IWMI Board of Governors
Former Minister of Agriculture, Water Resources and Fisheries, Tunisia		Enrica Porcari (Italy)
Member, CGIAR Integrated Partnership Board
Head of the Information Technology Department, CERN
Richard Golding (Switzerland & United Kingdom)
Member, CGIAR Integrated Partnership Board
Independent Management Consultant		Mark Smith (Canada)
Member, IWMI Board of Governors (ex officio)
Director General, International Water Management Institute
Julien Harou (Belgium)
Member, IWMI Board of Governors
Managing Director, University of Manchester		Veena Srinivasan (India)
Member, IWMI Board of Governors
Director of the CSEI & Senior Fellow, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment
Imtiaz Khan (Kenya)
Independent expert – Audit, Finance and Risk Committee of the IWMI Board of Governors
Chairman, Asset Management Committee of Arise BV		TBD (Sri Lanka)
Member, IWMI Board of Governors (Representative of the government of Sri Lanka)
Secretary, Ministry of Irrigation, Sri Lanka
Mauricio Lopes (Brazil)
Member, CGIAR Integrated Partnership Board
Senior Researcher at Embrapa Agroenergy, Brazil		TBD (Pakistan)
Member, IWMI Board of Governors (Representative of the government of Pakistan)
Secretary, Ministry of National Food Security and Research, Pakistan
David Molden (United States)
Member, IWMI Board of Governors
Consultant, Agriculture water management, World Bank		Patricia Wouters (Canada)
Member, IWMI Board of Governors
Founding Director, International Water Law Academy, China Institute of Boundary and Ocean Studies (CIBOS), Wuhan University

Program Committee

  • Akiça Bahri
  • Julien Harou
  • Rachael McDonnell
  • Mark Smith
  • Patricia Wouters

Standing Committees

Audit, Finance and Risk Committee:

  • Richard Golding
  • Imtiaz Khan
  • Veena Srinivasan, interim Committee Chair

Nominations and Board Affairs Committee:

  • Akiça Bahri
  • Simi Kamal
  • Veena Srinivasan, Committee Chair
  • TBD (Representative of the government of Sri Lanka)
  • Patricia Wouters

Ad-hoc IWMI Charter Review:

  • Simi Kamal
  • Mark Smith
  • TBD (Representative of the government of Sri Lanka)
  • Patricia Wouters, Committee Chair

Forthcoming meetings

  • 16–18 December, 2024