Louise Whiting

Louise is an experienced policy-maker, programme developer and project manager at national and international levels, specialising in water resources management and policy as it relates to irrigation and food production, ecosystem health and climate change. She currently leads the Water Program for the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) for the Asia Pacific region. She has worked in Australian politics where was involved in intergovernmental negotiations during the Murray-Darling Basin reform period and the millennium drought. She spent four years with FAO implementing large-scale, multi-country water resources management and irrigation projects in Asia and Africa and building organisational understanding on water governance and politics. Louise was also a Senior Policy Analyst for WaterAid where she worked to integrate the water sub-sectors, influence global climate change policy, increase the flows of climate finance to sustainable water projects and provide technical backstopping support to country programming across Africa, Asia and Latin America.\ https://th.linkedin.com/in/louise-anne-whiting-82498725?trk=public_post_feed-actor-name