Free event - Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6: Clean Water and Sanitation , 30 July 2019

Australia  

From 2018–20, the Jean Monnet Sustainable Development Goals Network Seminar Series will address each of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Each seminar focuses on an individual Goal, offering an opportunity to explore the intent of the Goal, its targets, and some of the initiatives being undertaken to deliver on them. Each seminar will be accompanied by a Policy Brief.

Sustainable Development Goal 6, Clean Water and Sanitation, aims to ‘Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.'
 

Panellists

Chair: Naomi Francis
Engineer and Development Consultant, Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne’s School of Social and Political Sciences

Professor Jega Jegatheesan
School of Engineering Cluster, RMIT University

Meredith Hickman
Head of Strategy at WaterAid Australia
 
When
Tuesday, 30 July 2019, 12:30pm – 2pm

Where
RMIT Council Chamber, Building 1, Level 2R, 124 La Trobe St, Melbourne VIC

Cost: Free

Registration is essential
RSVP here
 
Light refreshments will be served

More information on panellists:

Chair: Naomi Francis
Naomi is an engineer and development consultant, working and researching in water, sanitation, hygiene and health in low-income settings. She is currently completing her PhD at the University of Melbourne’s Nossal Institute for Global Health, on water, sanitation and hygiene in remote villages in Timor-Leste. Naomi is also a research fellow at the University of Melbourne’s School of Social and Political Sciences exploring a women’s empowerment program (MAMPU) in Indonesia in partnership with the University of Gadjah Mada. She tutors and lectures in several of the International Development and Global Health subjects offered at the University of Melbourne and RMIT.

Professor Jega Jegatheesan
Jega’s research focuses on integrated water management and recently he has co-edited a book on “Urban Stormwater & Flood Management - Enhancing the Liveability of Cities” published by Springer. Jega is founder and Chairman of the international conference series on Challenges in Environmental Science & Engineering (CESE) held annually since 2008. He has over 300 publications including more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and five edited books.

Jega is also the managing guest editor of 30 special issues in peer-reviewed journals, an editorial board member of two Elsevier journals and one prestigious open access journal on membranes. Additionally, he is the editor-in-chief of a book series entitled Applied Environmental Science and Engineering (AESE) for a Sustainable Future published by Springer and has been instrumental for publishing 8 books since 2015.

Meredith Hickman
Meredith Hickman is Head of Strategy at WaterAid Australia. Meredith is a development professional dedicated to the global movement for clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene for everyone, everywhere by 2030. As Head of Strategy at WaterAid, she manages a team of technical experts and business development staff driving the strategic direction of WaterAid’s work in Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Prior to joining WaterAid Meredith supported initiatives around governance, accountability, and decentralisation.  She holds a Master of Internal Development from Sydney University.

More panellists to be announced shortly!

For more information see the event flier featured below or this registration link.