Charlotte is a Senior Researcher leading the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health program on Water Security. She has over 20 years of experience in Research for Development in the Water Sector in Sub-Saharan Africa, South and South-East Asia, and the Caribbean.
She holds a PhD in Hydrology and MSc in Irrigation from Newcastle University, UK. She has worked as a Research Scientist and Manager for the Mekong River Commission, UNDP, IWMI, and World Wide Fund For Nature and as a donor representative for the International Development Research Centre.
She has provided technical support and policy advice to communities, municipalities, governments, International Organizations and NGOs. Her research interests span a broad range and scale of water issues influenced by development and changing climate, including Integrated Water Resource Management; WASH; water and climate-related disaster risk management; modelling the land-water interface from field to basin in rural and urban contexts; sustainable water resource solutions for agriculture; the future of hydropower; communities and autonomous adaption; solutions for data-scarce areas and data as a public good. She has published extensively on these topics and has been an Associate Editor of Water International since 2016.