Dr. Claudia Sadoff is the World Bank’s Global Lead for Water Security and Integrated Resource Management, and a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Oxford University.  At the World Bank she has led the South Asia Water Initiative and the global Water Resources Team, and coordinated the World Bank Nile Team. She has also served as Chair of the GWP/OECD Task Force on Water Security and Sustainable Growth, Senior Advisor to IWMI, Economic Advisor to IUCN, and a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Water Security and the GWP Technical Committee. She holds a PhD in Economics.