Claudia Sadoff

Dr. Claudia Sadoff is the former Executive Managing Director of CGIAR, the world’s largest not-for-profit partnership of international food, land, and water systems research institutes. She was Director General of the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), a CGIAR research Center headquartered in Sri Lanka, and served 25 years at the World Bank holding a variety of positions including Lead Economist and Global Lead for Water Security and Water Resources Management. She has received appointments and honors from a range of organizations, including; Member of the Scientific Group of the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit, Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Oxford University, Chair of the GWP/OECD Task Force on Water Security and Sustainable Growth, Economic Advisor at IUCN, Member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Water Security, Member of the Global Water Partnership Technical Committee, Honorary Member of the International Water Resources Association and Fulbright Scholar. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley and an MA in International Political Economy from Columbia University.