Barbara Schreiner

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Ms Barbara Schreiner is a Director in Pegasys Consulting, Executive Director of the Pegasys Institute. She has 20 years’ experience in the water and environmental sector, having worked as a Ministerial advisor, as a senior government official, and subsequently in the consulting and research fields locally and internationally. She is an experienced senior manager and consultant with highly developed leadership and communication skills, and expertise in issues of implementation of policy, strategic project and programme evaluation, integrated water resources management and transboundary water resources management, and institutional and organisational development and strategy. She has written extensively on issues of water resources management in developing countries, with a particular focus on issues of gender and poverty, and co-edited a book on Transforming Water Management in South Africa – Designing and Implementing a New Policy Framework. She has worked in a number of African countries, on projects that span Africa and sub-Saharan Africa, and with the SADC water division. Her high level international experience includes being a member of the international Global Water Partnership Steering Committee for several years and a Board member of the international CGIAR Water for Food Challenge Programme. She is currently on the Board of the International Water Management Institution, and the Isimangaliso Wetland Park. Whe was a member of the Programme Oversight Panel of the Aquatic Agricultural Systems research programme of the CGIAR. She served as a member of the High Level Panel of Experts appointed by the UN Committee on Food Security to draft a report on Water and Food and Nutrition Security.

 

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Education: Masters

Seniority: Manager, Director, Professor

Years of experience: 20 years or above

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