Emmanuel Akpabio, Ph.D
Dr. Akpabio is a human geographer, with a social science background. He has been, for the past 20 years, involved in several funded researches on integrated water resources management (IWRM), indigenous water resources management, and water, sanitation and hygiene (WaSH) with deeper insight on cultural and science-policy-society perspectives. One of his publications titled ‘Water meanings, Sanitation practices and Hygiene behaviours in the Cultural mirror: a perspective from Nigeria’ was awarded the Water Institute (North Carolina, USA) Prize in 2012. He was an EU Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow, Dundee, UK, (2018-2020), and also served as a visiting scientist to the ‘Scottish Government Water Industry Team’ at Edinburgh. Her was a Director in the Board of the International Water Resources Association- IWRA- (2013-2015), and was one of the International Scientific Steering Committee members for the XVth World Water Congress held at Edinburgh, UK (2015). He is currently the International Associate, UNESCO Centre for Water Law, Policy & Science, University of Dundee, United Kingdom. For more: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6105-1782.