ABSTRACT
Inga Jacobs is an executive manager of Business Development, Marketing, and Communications at the Water Research Commission (WRC), South Africa. She is a political scientist by training and specializes in regional and international water governance in Africa and, speci¢cally, cooperative governance in shared river basins in the Southern African and East African regions. Inga completed her PhD degree in International Relations at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, in 2010. She also holds a Master of Arts in International Studies from the University of Stellenbosch and a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in International Relations from Grinnell College, Iowa, in the United States. Within her professional capacity at the WRC, Inga is responsible for the strategic monitoring of research trends in the water sector, as well as providing direction and leadership on the impact of water R&D in South Africa and other metadata research.
