Barbara Schreiner

Barbara is Executive Director of the Water Integrity Network. She has over 25 years’ experience in water management in developing countries, with a focus on good governance and addressing poverty, inequality, gender and other forms of social and economic marginalisation. She was Executive Director of the Pegasys Institute, a not-for-profit organisation working to find African solutions to African challenges in water management. She has worked as a consultant and in senior management in the public sector including as advisor to two Ministers. She has extensive experience at Board level for the International Water Management Institute, the International Steering Committee of the Global Water Partnership, the Isimangaliso Wetland Park World Heritage Site, and as Chairperson of the Water Research Commission of South Africa. She has published extensively on issues of water management, equity, development, gender and social inclusion.