Nicholas Institute Staff

Elizabeth Kistin
Elizabeth Kistin’s work at the Nicholas Institute focuses on water and adaptation, with particular emphasis on international water resources. Since 2004 Elizabeth has worked on issues of transboundary water governance and international development. In 2006 she earned a master’s degree in International Development Studies from Oxford University in the UK. Her master’s thesis examined the impact of transboundary water cooperation between the United States and Mexico on adaptive capacity in the Rio Grande-Rio Bravo Basin. Since then, Elizabeth has split her time between Oxford and southern Africa and is in the process of finishing her PhD dissertation on the dynamic effects of transboundary water governance in the Orange-Senqu River Basin (shared between Lesotho, South Africa, Botswana and Namibia).