Arjen is lead for Water Resources and Climate Change and is keen on hydrogeology, passionate about mapping, and eager to share WASH knowledge and facilitate learning. Arjen's background within IRC was as lead researcher for WASHCost Mozambique.
Arjen has twenty years sector experience – including five years as technical adviser South Asia (Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Nepal and Pakistan) and 13 years private sector experience in Mozambique and Uganda. He has hands-on experience in extensive water resource studies, detailed social surveys, quality assurance and thorough WASH data analysis and visualisation.
His academic background is an MSc in Hydrogeology and he is fluent in English, Dutch, Portuguese, German and has a reasonable command of Spanish. He is Dutch by nationality and currently lives near London with his family.
This paper deals with principles for reform on the urban water supply and sanitation sector in the NIS. It specifies that tariff increases are... Read more...
This paper analyses the implications the current WTO negotiations to liberalise trade in services may have for global water resources. Read more...
Despite the increased attention international organizations now pay to water supply and sanitation, the overall water supply situation in many... Read more...
The report gives an overview of the major points raised during an e-mail conference on gender and community-based urban waste management, involving... Read more...