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Pasquale Steduto
Zafar Adeel, Chair to UN-Water, is Director, Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH) at the United Nations University in Hamilton, Canada. Dr Adeel holds a MSc in Environmental Engineering from the Iowa State University and a Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the Carnegie Mellon University. Dr Adeel has experience in a variety of water and environmental issues, including monitoring and control of water pollution, water management in dry areas, solutions to industrial environmental problems, modeling of environmental systems and environmental policy formulation.
Dr. Adeel joined UNU in 1998 and moved to UNU-INWEH in 2003.
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Nikhil Chandavarkar, Secretary to UN-Water, is Chief of Communication and Outreach, Division of Sustainable Development, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA). Nikhil holds a PhD in economics from Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. He has worked in the UN since 1979, in Brazil, Colombia, Paraguay and New York. He has advised governments in Asia, Africa and Latin America, on human development and sustainable development policies. His recent publications include the book Building the Green Economy and another on economic and environmental vulnerability in Mongolia. Nikhil is fluent in Arabic, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.
Nikhil Chandavarkar
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Johan Kuylenstierna  
Johan Kuylenstierna, Chief Technical Advisor to the Chair, UN-Water. Johan has a PhLic in Physical Geography. He has previous work experience from the Stockholm International Water Institute, as a Management Consultant, from the UN System (UN-DESA and WMO) and as a university teacher. He currently holds an adjunct professorship at the Department of Physical Geography and Quarternary Geology at the Stockholm University.
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Frederik Pischke, Advisor to the Secretary, UN-Water. Frederik holds an MRes in Environmental Sciences from the University of East Anglia. He has worked on sustainable development issues with an emphasis on water management with the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), the CGIAR’s International Water Management Institute (IWMI) in Sri Lanka; the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO); and the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) in Bolivia.
Frederik Pischke
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Scope
The scope of UN-Water’s work encompasses all aspects of freshwater and sanitation, including surface and groundwater resources and the interface between freshwater and seawater and water-related disasters.

Objective
UN-Water was established to promote coherence and coordination in UN System initiatives that are related to UN-Water’s scope of work and contrib- ute to the implementation of the agenda defined by the 2000 Millennium Declaration and the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development.

Members and partners
UN-Water has 26 members from the UN System and external partners representing various organizations and civil society.

Focus Areas
  • Integrated water resources management
  • Drinking-water, sanitation and health
  • Water scarcity
  • Pollution
  • Transboundary waters
  • Climate change and disaster risk management
  • Gender and water
  • Financing and valuation
  • Capacity building
  • Africa: a region for priority action
Programmes
  • World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP)
  • The WHO / UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme on Water Supply and Sanitation (JMP)
  • UN-Water Decade Programme on Capacity Development (UNW-DPC)
  • The UN-Water Decade Programme on Advocacy and Communication (UNW-DPAC)
Flagship Reports
  • World Water Development Report
  • WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme Reports
  • Global Annual Assessment on Sanitation and Drinking Water
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