Dr. Akissa Bahri: IWMI Africa director wins Prof. C.N.R. Rao Prize for Scientific Research

Dr. Akissa Bahri, Director – Africa Director of the International Water Management Institute, has been selected as the 2009 recipient of the “Prof. C.N.R. Rao Prize for Scientific Research”. This prize was instituted in 2006 to honour distinguished scientists from Africa and the Least Developing Countries, who have made outstanding contributions to science and technology. The prize will be awarded to her in Durban, South Africa, on occasion of the TWAS 20th General Meeting and 11th General Conference to be held from 20th to 23rd October 2009.

Akissa Bahri has worked in the field of agricultural use of marginal waters (brackish and waste water), sewage sludge and their impacts on the environment. She has been working for the National Research Institute for Agricultural Engineering, Water and Forestry in her home country Tunisia, where she was in charge of research management in the field of agricultural water use. She has been involved in policy and legislative issues regarding water reuse and land application of sewage sludge, and is a member of different international scientific committees.

Akissa Bahri was appointed Director of Africa of IWMI, a CGIAR-supported research institute headquartered in Colombo, Sri Lanka, effective September 2005.

Source: IWMI, 28 May 2009