Dr. Annabelle Houdret
Research programme: Environmental Governance
Function: Senior Researcher
Specialization: Political Science
Work areas:
- Water management und water policy
- Conflict and cooperation over water and other natural resources
- Climate change
- Environmental policies in developing countries
- Development cooperation
- MENA region
- Integrated Water Resources Management for Central Asia: Model Region Mongolia (MoMo)
Responsibilities in education and training:
- Since 2012: Seminars on environmental and water policies for the DIE postgraduate programme
- 2013: Supervisor of Master theses at the Universities of Kassel and of Paris
- 2005-2007: Conducted seminars in international relations and development policy at the Institute for Political Science, University of Duisburg-Essen
- 2003: Trainer in conflict management and peacebuilding, Swiss Development Cooperation, Kathmandu/ Nepal
Vita
| since 1/2018 | German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) Researcher, Research Programme "Environmental Governance and Transformation to Sustainability" |
| 1/2012-12/2017 | German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) Researcher, department "Environmental Policy and Management of Natural Resources" |
| 2009-2011 | Adelphi Research, Berlin Senior Project Manager environmental policies and development cooperation, Head of the department „Water and Wastewater“ |
| 2005-2007 | Institute for Development and Peace (INEF), University of Duisburg-Essen Researcher |
| 2005-2008 | University of Duisburg-Essen and University Paris 8 PhD in Political Science, thesis: conflicts over water in Morocco |
| 2008-2009 | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) Consultant Maghreb Round Tables |
| 2007 | Institute for Development and Peace (INEF)/ Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) Consultant security and development in the Maghreb region |
| 2005-2008 | Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement, CIRAD, Montpellier and SIRMA project (Water Economy in Irrigation Systems of Northern Africa) PhD student |
| 2004 | Center for Development Research (ZEF), Bonn Research fellow Water, Development and Cooperation in the Euphrates-Tigris Region |
| 2003 | Swiss Development Cooperation (SDC), Kathmandu, Nepal Conflict and Peacebuilding Advisor |
| 2002 | Otto-Suhr-Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Freie Universität Berlin Diploma |
| 2000-2001 | Université Paris 8 Master (Maîtrise de Science Politique) |
Contact
E-mail Annabelle.Houdret@die-gdi.de
Phone +49 (0)228 94927-180
Fax +49 (0)228 94927-130
In the media
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Zwei Milliarden ohne sauberes Wasser: Wer steht auf der Leitung? (in German)
Ten years ago, the UN declared access to clean water a human right. Annabelle Houdret observes that there is no longer enough political pressure. "Between 2010 and 2016, German pledges have decreased by a quarter".
taz, 17 September 2020
In the media
Régionalisation avancée : rapport d’étape
Tafra Blog, 12.11.2018
Highlight
A new rural social contract for the Maghreb? The political economy of access to water, land and rural development
Houdret, Annabelle / Zakaria Kadiri / Lisa Bossenbroek (2017)
in: Middle East Law and Governance 9 (1), 20-42
Highlight
Soziale Unruhen in Nordafrika: die Rolle von Wasser- und Landpolitik
Houdret, Annabelle (2014)
in: Ulrich Schneckener, Arnulf von Scheliha, Andreas Lienkamp, Britta Klagge (Hrsg.), Wettstreit um Ressourcen: Konflikte um Klima, Wasser und Boden, München: Oekom Verl., 209-222
Highlight
The institutionalization of River Basin Management as politics of scale – Insights from Mongolia
Houdret, Annabelle / Ines Dombrowsky / Lena Horlemann (2014)
in: Journal of Hydrology, Available online 4 December 2013