UCLA Webinar Series 2022 - Between the Rivers: Water for Development, Peace & Security in the Euphrates-Tigris region
Professor Aysegul Kibaroglu is the Chair of the Department of Political Science and International Relations at MEF University in Istanbul. She was a Visiting Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, LBJ School of Public Affairs in 2016. Previously, she was a Faculty Member and Vice Chair of the Department of International Relations at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara (2003-2011). Prof. Kibaroglu was a post-Doctoral Fellow at the International Water Law Research Institute at the University of Dundee, Scotland in 2002.
Dr. Hassan Janabi is the former Ambassador Plenipotentiary and Extraordinary of Iraq to the Republic of Turkey (2018-2020), previously Ambassador, Head of the Department of International Organizations and Conferences. Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2018-2019); and from 2016 to 2018 the Minister of Water Resources of Iraq. Dr. Hassan has also been Ambassador to Japan and UN Agencies in Rome.
Moderated by Professor Mark Zeitoun, Director General, Geneva Water Hub.
Sponsor(s): Center for Near Eastern Studies, UCLA International Institute, Center for Middle East Development, Engineering, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability