Board of Governors
Chair
Members
Akiça Bahri
Member, Board of Governors
Former Minister of Agriculture, Water Resources and Fisheries of Tunisia.
Imtiaz Khan
Member, Board of Governors
Imtiaz Khan (Kenya) currently chairs the Asset Management Committee of Arise BV. He joined the Board in November 2025. He
Doulaye Kone
Member, Board of Governors
Director of the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene program, Gates Foundation.
Mauricio Lopes
Member, CGIAR Integrated Partnership Board
Senior Researcher at the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa).
David Molden
Member, Board of Governors
Consultant on agriculture water management to the World Bank.
Cristina Rumbaitis del Rio
Member, Board of Governors
Senior Advisor on Adaptation and Resilience, United Nations Foundation.
Veena Srinivasan
Member, Board of Governors
Director of the CSEI & Senior Fellow, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment.
D. P. Wickremasinghe
Member, Board of Governors
Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Land and Irrigation of Sri Lanka.
Patricia Wouters
Member, Board of Governors
Founding Director, International Water Law Academy, China Institute of Boundary and Ocean Studies (CIBOS), Wuhan University.
A representative of the government of Pakistan is pending appointment as Member of the IWMI Board of Governors. The previous appointee was Muhammad Mahmood, Secretary, Ministry of National Food Security and Research, Pakistan.
Program Committee
- Akiça Bahri, Committee Chair
- Mauricio Lopes
- Rachael McDonnell
- David Molden
- Mark Smith
- Patricia Wouters
Standing Committees
Audit, Finance and Risk Committee:
- Richard Golding
- Imtiaz Khan
- David Molden, Committee Chair
- Veena Srinivasan
Nominations and Board Affairs Committee:
- Akiça Bahri
- Richard Golding
- Henk Ovink
- Veena Srinivasan, Committee Chair
- D. P. Wickremasinghe
- Patricia Wouters
Legal and Governance Architecture Committee:
- Henk Ovink
- Mark Smith
- Patricia Wouters, Committee Chair
People and Culture Committee:
- Henk Ovink
- Mark Smith
- Veena Srinivasan, Committee Chair
Forthcoming meetings
- March 19, 2026: Online.
- June 2026: Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Latest news about the Board
IWMI welcomes Henk Ovink as new Board Chair
Doulaye Kone, Cristina Rumbaitis del Rio and Debra Tan will join the Board as IWMI takes forward its Strategy 2024-2030 for research and innovation …
Looking back, moving forward
As IWMI celebrates four decades of research and innovation, former director generals and board chairs share their reflections, learnings, and favorite memories …
IWMI welcomes new leadership to drive strategy 2024-2030
Each of the new members will play a key role in guiding IWMI’s growth and development as it takes forward the new IWMI Strategy 2024-2030 …
IWMI welcomes new Board members
Appointees joining the Board of Governors will guide direction and growth of global Institute …
IWMI’s new Board Chair and Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister reiterate commitment to sustainable water management
Climate change and water resilience a joint priority, as international research organization prepares to launch new strategy and mark 40-year anniversary …
IWMI welcomes new Board Chair
The Board of Governors of the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) is pleased to announce the appointment of Simi Kamal as incoming Chair of the Board, effective 1 January 2024 …
