Marijn Korndewal

YEP period 2017 - 2019, batch 12

Young Expert at Waterschap Zuiderzeeland - Ethiopia

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First position after YEP

Water Expert at UNEP, Kenya

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YEP Role

Marijn is seconded by Waterschap Zuiderzeeland to the Awash River Basin Authority, Ethiopia. She is a policy advisor in the field of water governance. Part of her assignment is to support the development of the Basin High Council Secretariat, a secretariat to a high-level, political body concerning three Ethiopian river basin authorities.

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Skills

• Qualitative research
• Policy analysis
• Stakeholder engagement
• Change management
• Fields of expertise: water and international relations, water governance, urban development

Background

Nationality: Dutch
Education: 

• BA in International Relations (University of Groningen)
• MSc in Environment and Resource Management (VU University of Amsterdam)
• MSc in Water Science, Policy and Management (University of Oxford)

Experience before YEP

 

Experience before YEP

2015 – 2017 Trainee Dutch National Water Traineeship

2015 – 2015 Policy advisor at Waterschap Zuiderzeeland Water Authority, the Netherlands