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Dr. Koen Verbist is a Programme Specialist working at the
Intergovernmental Hydrological Programme (IHP) at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris,
where he is responsible for supporting research programmes on Hydrological
Systems, Climate Change and Adaptation, as well as supporting the
implementation of the International Sediment Initiative (ISI) and the G-WADI Flagship
Programme on water resources management in arid and semi-arid regions.
He
has a background in soil erosion, sediment modelling and land restoration and obtained his PhD in 2011 at Ghent University, Belgium, on the
improvement of water harvesting systems in drylands of Chile. He has
co-authored several UNESCO publications on these topics, and has over 25
scientific papers in international journals, several related to soil erosion
and land management.
He can be contacted via k.verbist@unesco.org
and is active on Linked-in and Research
Gate.