19:00 UTC November Learn and Share: Water & COP26

Join us for a chance to Learn and Share about Water & COP26 with CWiW members around the world! Our Learn and Share events are interactive and a great way to share your experiences while meeting other members and learning from our keynote speaker. Our November event will reflect on the role water played at COP26 .

Join us for 19:00 UTC Wednesday 17 November 9:00 Honolulu / 11:00 San Diego / 13:00 Tegucigalpa / 14:00 Baltimore / 20:00 Porto Novo

For this 19:00 UTC session, we are pleased to have Ingrid Timboe, Policy Director at AGWA and Pan Ei Ei Phyoe, an AGWA consultant, as the keynote speakers. 

Ingrid Timboe is the Policy Director at the Alliance for Global Water Adaptation (AGWA). As part of her role of leading AGWA’s engagement on climate policy, she is AGWA’s water focal point for the Marrakech Partnership, coordinates AGWA’s work with the UNFCCC–particularly the Adaptation Committee, and is on the Steering Committee for this year’s first Water and Climate Pavilion at COP. She co-hosts the ClimateReady podcast with Alex Mauroner. Her background includes six years at the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) working with the Global Policy and Conservation Science teams before starting with AGWA in 2017.

Pan Ei Ei Phyoe is the Policy Consultant at the Alliance for Global Water Adaptation (AGWA) and working as the Oxford Water Network Coordinator at the University of Oxford. With AGWA, she closely assists Ingrid Timboe on the Water and Climate Pavilion at COP26. She is an engineer by training and holds two MSc’s in water resources engineering from the University of Stuttgart and Water Science, Policy and Management from the University of Oxford. She had worked in Myanmar, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom regarding integrated water resources management (IWRM) strategies. 

19:00 UTC not a good time?

Join us for 8:00 UTC  Wednesday 17 November 8:00 UTC (9:00 Stockholm / 11:00 Mogadishu / 13:00 Tashkent / 15:00 Vientiane / 17:00 Seoul / 19:00 Port Vila)

For this second session, we are pleased to have Jennifer Jun, Sr Manager on International Policy at SIWI , as the keynote speaker.

Jennifer Jun has been leading this year on organizing the very first Water & Climate Pavilion–part of the Blue Zone at COP26 and a critical way to amplify messages around the value of water in addressing climate change. In her role at Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), Jennifer develops and communicates international policy positions about water’s role in climate mitigation, adaptation, and resilience and the value of water as a connector across the sustainable development goals. he serves as a focal point for the water thematic group within the Marrakech Partnership for Global Climate Action. Her background includes fourteen years of experience in program design and management, research, external relations, and communications on a wide range of global issues including human rights, international justice, and foreign policy.   

This event is for members only, but any women working on water issues can sign up for free membership. Instructions for accessing this event will be shared when you register. Please note that if you are not a CWiW member, we recommend that you register at least a day in advance to ensure you have time to fill out membership details, after which event details will be sent to you.

Thank you to the Global Water Partnership for supporting this event.