Dhesigen Naidoo

Member, Board of Governors

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Board of Governors


Dhesigen Naidoo (South Africa) is Commissioner and Climate Adaptation Lead for the South African Presidential Climate Commission, and a Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Security Studies.

He joined the Board in January 2024.

Naidoo serves as President of the global non-governmental organization Human Right 2 Water and is a founding member of the Water Policy Group. Naidoo was Chief Executive Officer of the Water Research Commission, South Africa’s dedicated national water and sanitation, innovation, research and development from 2011-2020. He has previously served in senior positions in the South African government and at South African universities, having begun his career as a medical scientist in a specialist children’s hospital. He is a councilor of the National Advisory Council on Innovation and a Fellow of the Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection.

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