Ms Eiman Karar

Executive Manager : Water Resource Management

Mrs Karar has about 20 years experience in natural resources management, mainly water. She has an M.S.c in Environmental Sciences and a project management Diploma. She is currently registered for an LLM at UKZN. For a number of years Karar worked as a Director in the Department of Water Affairs of South Africa responsible for developing policies related to all decentralised Water Management Institutions. She was a Commissioner on the Limpopo Commission (LIMCOM). She also authored numerous chapters and papers mainly dealing with water governance and the management of public property resources at very local community level to regional and international levels. She is Chair of the River Basin Working Group in GEF International Waters project (IWSCience).She is a registered professional natural scientist with the South African Association of Natural Scientists and is a member of the Water Institute of Southern Africa (WISA) and Chair of the WISA Law subcommittee of the Management Division. Since 2005 she has been involved in research and knowledge generation, dissemination and capacity building in the South African water sector at large as a member of the Executive in the WRC. As part of the WRC, she is actively involved with the International and African academies of Sciences and is advisor to the South African Academy of Science Water Programme. In addition, she is a Technical Advisory Group (TAG) Member of the Southern African Regional branch of the Global Water Partnership (GWP) as well as an advisory board member on Monash University, South Africa, Water Node. Karar also serves as an external examiner for the UKZN IWRM related courses. She is a member of WaterNet and a contributing author in a number of books including the global agricultural water Comprehensive Assessment book of the CGIAR and the latest is a chapter in: Barbara Schreiner and Rashid Hassan (Editors) Transforming Water Management in South Africa, 2010.

eimank@wrc.org.za