Speaker

Born in the South of Germany, Ines Strohschein, graduated from Hamburg University and then worked 21 years at the Berlin Water Works, one of the biggest integrated water and wastewater utilities in Europe where she held positions in Portfolio Management, Maintenance and Asset Management with a focus on sustainable water supply and water/wastewater management strategies and served as government liaison for Berlin’s stormwater management. As Vice President Water Network Development and Investments at TAQA in Abu Dhabi, UAE, since May 2022, Ines Strohschein, leads her team to promote TAQA’s national and international growth strategy with greenfield and brownfield water development projects. Her project DROP – Releasing the Potential of Alternate Water Supply is dedicated to establishing the True Cost of Water in a regionally adopted model from the United Nations approach to valuing water with the World Bank Water in Circular Economy and Resilience (WICER) framework and foster research in sustainable water supply technologies with a focus on renewable and ‘green’ water harvesting devices