Barbara Schreiner

Barbara Schreiner is Executive Director of the Water Integrity Network. She has over 30 years’ experience in water management in developing countries, with a focus on good governance and addressing poverty, inequality, gender and other forms of social and economic marginalization. She has written extensively on these issues.

She has an MPhil (Env Sc) (cum laude) from the University of Cape Town, and an MA from the University of Lancaster (UK).

Previously she was Executive Director of the Pegasys Institute, a not-for-profit organization working to find African solutions to African challenges in water and infrastructure management. She has worked internationally as a consultant and as Deputy Director General: Policy and Regulation in the Department of Water Affairs in South Africa. She has been advisor to three Ministers in South Africa.

She has been active on a number of Boards/Steering Committees: the International Water Management Institute, the Global Water Partnership, the Isimangaliso Wetland Park World Heritage Site, and as Chairperson of the Water Research Commission of South Africa. She is currently on the Steering Committee and Executive Oversight Committee of Sanitation and Water for All, the Steering Committees of the Open Government Partnership and End Water Poverty, and on the Board of the Chris Hani Institute. She is a member of the National Anti-Corruption Advisory Council of South Africa, advising the President on implementation of the national anti-corruption strategy.