WDW Alumni
These professionals have participated in a Water Diplomacy Workshop. They do not make admissions decisions about the WDW. If you want to contact the organizers of the WDW about applying, you can apply here or ask a question here.
Africa
Burkina Faso
- Olumide, Akinsola (UNEP/GEF Volta Basin Project)
Egypt
- Mohamed Elrawady (Water Resources Specialist, CEDARE)
Ethiopia
- Sherif Elsayed Salama (Senior Regional Project Coordinator, Eastern Nile Technical Regional Office)
Malawi
- Robert Matengula (Institute of Environmental Professionals)
Asia
Bangladesh
- Feroze Ahmed (Professor, Bangladesh Univ. of Engineering and Technology)
- Ahmadul Hassan (Center for Environmental and Geographic Information Services)
- Khaled Mortuza (Institute for Environment and Development)
China
- Xiaolan Zhang (Senior Engineer, Foreign Economic Cooperation Office)
Israel
- Ram Aviram (Consultant, BIT-Consultancy)
Malaysia
- Zaini Ujang (Vice-Chancellor, Universiti Teknologi Malaysai)
- Zulkifli Yusop (Professor, Universiti Teknologi Malaysai)
Pakistan
- Tariq Bilal (Society for Enforcement of Rule of Law)
Palestine
- Muna Dajani (Water Researcher)
- Dalia Jaradat (Co-ordinator, Palestinian Water Authority)
- Beesan Shonnar (Policies and Technical Support Director/Palestinian Water Ambassador, Palestinian Water Authority)
Uzbekistan
- Dinara Ziganshina (PhD Scholar, University of Dundee)
Greece
- Athanasios Derdemezis (Political Analyst, New Democracy Party)
Russian Federation
- Tsisana Shamlikashvili (President, Scientific and Methodological Center for Mediation and Law)
North America
Canada
- Louise Brennan (Policy Analyst, Alberta Environment)
- Paulette Fox (Manager, Environmental Protection, Blood Tribe Environmental Protection)
Costa Rica
- Rocio Cordoba (Water Management Coordinator, IUCN Mesoamerica)
Mexico
- Ana Garcia Briones (Project Coordinator, Centro de Colaboracion Civica)
- United States of America
- Mary Dumas (Mediator/Facilitator, Dumas & Associates, Inc.)
- Kashif Hasnie (US Department of State)
- Sarah Hoyt (USEPA Office of Wastewater Management)
- Matthew Turner (Director, Global Stakeholder Initiatives, Water Program, Future 500)
South America
Argentina
- Virginia Venturini (Professor, Universidad Nacional de Litoral)
Ecuador
- Eduardo Vidal (Executive Director, Environmental Sanitation Program, Empresa Pública Metropolitana de Agua Potable y Saneamiento)
Peru
- Mirtha Calderon (Engineer, National University of Engineering)
- Gloria Gabriela Cárdenas Alarcón (Physician, Hospital Espinar)




