Inga Jacobs-Mata
Country Representative Southern Africa, International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Pretoria, South Africa
Dr. Inga Jacobs-Mata is the Regional Representative for the International Water Management Institute’s (IWMI) Southern Africa regional office. She is a political scientist and has a PhD in International Relations from St-Andrews University, Scotland. She specializes in environmental and water governance. Current areas of focus include climate information service delivery; the politics of climate change; operationalizing the water-energy-food nexus and its governance frameworks; water stewardship; community-based approaches/supported self-supply; hybrid water law; and environmental migration. Before joining IWMI, Inga was the research group leader of the integrated water solutions group at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), and prior to that, the Executive Manager for Business Development, Marketing and Communications at the Water Research Commission (WRC) in South Africa.