Barbara Janusz-Pawletta. Vice-president for International Cooperation and Sustainable Development Since 2011, Dr Barbara Janusz-Pawletta on behalf of DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) is building up and supervising the regional MA Program on Integrated Water Management in Central Asia at the Kazakh-German University in Almaty. Since 2016, she is a UNESCO Chairholder for water management in Central Asia. Her teaching and research fields cover legal framework and institutional interstate cooperation. Since 2004, she has on hers account more than 35 research publications in various sources, including foreign ones. Currently Dr. Barbara Janusz-Pawletta is also the сo-editor of the Journal of the Central Asian Journal of Water Research (CAJWR), which is open-access, peer-reviewed e-Journal dedicated to all aspects of water management in the region of Central Asia. She has a membership at the Technical Committee of the Global Water Partnership (GWP) and at International Law Association within the Committee” Role of International Law in Sustainable Natural Resource Management for Development”.

Project Coordinator in the Green Energy and Climate Change Lab at the Center for Natural Resources and Sustainability She is leading projects related to capacity building in renewable energy and energy efficiency, gender empowerment in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) and conducts events on climate change, eco-business development as well as trainings on green economy and ecology topics. She holds a BA in Foreign Languages (English and Chinese) from Kazakh Ablai Khan University of International Relations and World Languages, Almaty, Kazakhstan, and a Master of Public Policy (MPP) from the Graduate School of Public Policy, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan.