Agenda

Anna Delgado, Water Specialist at the World Bank, is the Author of the Water in Circular Economy and Resilience report. Her report aims to promote a common understanding on the definition and applications of circular economy principles and resilience in the urban water sector. Anna Delgado will introduce different challenges and opportunities and will therefore, set the focus of the event.

Daniela Bemfica is Director of Strategic Programmes and Engagement at IWA, where she leads the programmes on Water and Sanitation Services and Cities of the Future. The IWA Programmes establish change agendas on key topics for a water-wise world that contribute to sustainable development. In her Keynote, we will learn about the wide range of IWA’s initiatives, events and publications and how they boost Circular Water Economy as a globally active association.

Phoebe Koundouri is Professor in Economics and Director of ReSEES Laboratory at the School of Economics of the Athens University of Economics and Business and Director of the Sustainable Development Research Unit at ATHENA Information Technology Research Center. She holds a MPhil and a PhD in Economics from the University of Cambridge and is recognized as a pioneer in innovative, human-centric, interdisciplinary systems for the sustainable interaction between nature, society, and the economy. Based on her work in the project Water-Futures, she will share an outlook on how the water infrastructure in cities of the future will look like. Crisis and increasingly uncertain climate conditions have increased the need for a more holistic and intelligent decision-making in the management of water infrastructures, how can these systems become more socially equitable, economically efficient and environmentally resilient?