Board of Governors
Members
| Henk Ovink (The Netherlands) Chair, IWMI Board of Governors Executive Director and founding Commissioner for the Global Commission on the Economics of Water | Cristina Rumbaitis del Rio (USA) Member, IWMI Board of Governors Senior Advisor on Adaptation and Resilience, United Nations Foundation |
| Akiça Bahri (Tunisia) Member, IWMI Board of Governors Former Minister of Agriculture, Water Resources and Fisheries, Tunisia | Mark Smith (Canada) Member, IWMI Board of Governors (ex officio) Director General, International Water Management Institute |
| Richard Golding (Switzerland & United Kingdom) Member, CGIAR Integrated Partnership Board Independent Management Consultant | Veena Srinivasan (India) Member, IWMI Board of Governors Director of the CSEI & Senior Fellow, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment |
| Doulaye Kone (Côte d’Ivoire) Member, IWMI Board of Governors Director of the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene program, Gates Foundation | Debra Tan (China) Member, IWMI Board of Governors Director and Head, CWR |
| Mauricio Lopes (Brazil) Member, CGIAR Integrated Partnership Board Senior Researcher at Embrapa Agroenergy, Brazil | TBD (Pakistan) Member, IWMI Board of Governors (Representative of the government of Pakistan) Secretary, Ministry of National Food Security and Research, Pakistan |
| David Molden (United States) Member, IWMI Board of Governors Consultant, Agriculture water management, World Bank | D. P. Wickremasinghe (Sri Lanka) Member, IWMI Board of Governors (Representative of the government of Sri Lanka) Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Land and Irrigation, Sri Lanka |
| Enrica Porcari (Italy) Member, CGIAR Integrated Partnership Board Head of the Information Technology Department, CERN | Patricia Wouters (Canada) Member, IWMI Board of Governors Founding Director, International Water Law Academy, China Institute of Boundary and Ocean Studies (CIBOS), Wuhan University |
Program Committee
- Akiça Bahri, Committee Chair
- Julien Harou
- 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
- Veena Srinivasan, Committee Chair
- D. P. Wickremasinghe
- Patricia Wouters
Legal and Governance Architecture Committee:
- Mark Smith
- Patricia Wouters, Committee Chair
People and Culture Committee:
- Henk Ovink
- Enrica Porcari
- Mark Smith
- Veena Srinivasan
Forthcoming meetings
- 25 to 28 November 2025 in 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 …
