IHE PhD Symposium 2021: Collaborative water resource management for a water-secure world

Our speakers

Opening speaker: Professor dr. Charlotte de Fraiture, IHE Delft Vice Rector

Charlotte de Fraiture started as Vice Rector of IHE Delft on 15 March 2018. She has over 20 years of international working experience in the field of water management for agriculture. She worked for the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) from 1996 to 2011 based in Colombia, Sri Lanka, Ghana and Burkina Faso. She was involved in several research projects related to watershed development, irrigation performance, irrigation management transfer and modelling of global water supply and demand, leading the development and application of the global water and food model. She was project leader of several research projects, among others a large BMGF funded project on identifying promising options for smallholder water management in Ghana, Burkina Faso, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Zambia and India. Besides research she fulfilled several management tasks, being Head of Office of the West-Africa office, Theme Leader and Group Head. Since January 2012, she joined IHE Delft as professor of Land and Water Development.

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Keynote speaker: Professor dr. Peter Herman

Peter Herman is Professor of Ecological Hydraulic Engineering at Delft University of Technology, Senior researcher at Deltares (Coastal and Marine Systems). He is an ecologist working on physical-ecological interaction and modelling ecological dynamics in estuaries and coasts.

He is a broadly interested estuarine ecologist, fascinated by the ecological functioning of these systems full of gradients between fresh and salt, quiet and dynamic, high and low.

He uses mathematical models and theoretical concepts to better understand the complexity of these landscapes. He tries to understand and describe this complexity in quantitative terms, e.g. in biogeochemical cycles, food webs, physical structures.

He conveys the knowledge gained in these theoretical studies to society.

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