Please note that this event will be held online as a webinar. To attend, please register using the link provided. Please also note that this event will be recorded.

For anyone joining from Colombo, the webinar will start at 15:30 (IST).

About the event

The King's Water Centre welcomes you to the third annual talk in the Tony Allan Memorial Lecture Series: "Supporting women in water management: The good, the bad and the ugly".

The Tony Allan Memorial Lecture Series takes forward the intellectual legacy of our late emeritus colleague on topics of water, agriculture and political economy through critical discussion across diverse research, professional and practitioner communities. Find out more about our previous lectures.

In this lecture, we will critically consider the role of women and girls in water management in a changing climate context and alternate food practices, with a particular focus on Asia with our speaker Kusum Athukorala (Women for Water Partnership/Sri Lanka Water Partnership).

The Lecture Series is hosted by the King’s Water Centre, which works to incubate, elevate, and empower the best science and innovation to tackle the world’s water problems. We are curiosity-driven, interdisciplinary, and solutions-focused. Based in the heart of London, King’s Water Centre brings together scholars and practitioners for a just and sustainable water future.

About the speaker

Kusum Athukorala

Kusum has pioneered in gender and water studies in Sri Lanka and continues to promote a gendered approach in water programmes. She holds an MSc in Managing Rural Change from Imperial College London. She has previously worked as a university teacher in languages, cultural and development studies and later decided to move her career discipline to water resources management. As a multidisciplinary and multiskilled professional, she has been recognised for her work for several times. She received the International Women in Water Award in 2012 awarded by International Water Association and the Zonta Woman of Achievement for Environment in 2014. She introduces herself as a researcher, advocate, and an activist.