Rahmah Elfithri

Rahmah Elfithri is the Chief of Section for Capacity Development and Water Family Coordination (CDW) in the Division of Water Sciences, UNESCO in Paris since April 2022. She worked for the Global Water Partnership Southeast Asia in Jakarta as Deputy Regional Coordinator since July 2021. She was previously Visiting Professor at the National University of Malaysia and has more than 15 years of research/academic experience at the Institute for Environment and Development (LESTARI). She also has been coordinating the Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) and Sustainable Ecosystem Management Research Groups in UKM since 2007. She holds Ph.D. in Environment and Development (Integrated Water Resources Management) from the UKM. She is a Founder Member of International Association of Water, Environment, Energy and Society (IAWEES) since 2018, Executive Direction Board Member of International Society for Ecohydrology (ISEH) since 2019, Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) Core Member of UNESCO-IHP Ecohydrology since 2019 and Steering Committee (SC) Member of UNDRR’s Global Risk Assessment Framework (GRAF) since 2020.