Natasha Carmi is a Programme Lead for the Geneva Water Hub’s “Building Peace through Water” work. She has been with the Geneva Water Hub since 2018, and leads the Hub’s work in the Western Asia and North Africa (WANA) region, contibutes to the Global Water Observatory on Water and Peace, and advances the women, water and peace agenda. She is also the founding member of the Empowerment of Women in Water Diplomacy in the MENA region initiative. Prior to that, she worked as water, agriculture and environment policy advisor to the Palestinian Negotiations Support Project, working closely with decision makers, and has experience in bilateral and regional water negotiations. She is used to working in highly sensitive and timely political environments, and has worked with water resources and environmental challenges in the Middle East for over 20 years. She is frequently a speaker at universities, conferences and workshops on transboundary water resources and hydropolitics, and runs role play and mock negotiations An engineer by education, Natasha holds a Master’s Degree in Hydrology for Environmental Management, from Imperial College in London.
