Pay Drechsel

Senior Fellow-Advisor - Research Quality Assurance (Interim Country Manager - Sri Lanka)

Research team

Water, growth and inclusion > Integrated circular economy transformations

Areas of expertise

Natural resources management resource recovery and reuse urban agriculture safe wastewater use soil fertility plant nutrition

International Board for Soil Research and Management (IBSRAM). Pay served as scientific and technical advisor for WHO, FAO, DGIS, IDRC, SIDA, UN-Water and EU funded projects and expert groups and supervised a large number of graduate and postgraduate students. Pay authored or co-authored over 350 publications, half in peer-reviewed books and journals. He has worked extensively in West and East Africa, and South and South-East Asia. After longer stays in Thailand, Rwanda and Ghana, Pay is based since 2009 at IWMI HQ in Sri Lanka.