KRISTINA NILSSON, OPERATIONS COORDINATOR

Kristina is a governance and development professional with 12 years' experience focused on water and sanitation service delivery, through work in Nepal, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, and with multi-country and global projects and programmes. She is currently a PhD student at the University of Oxford, studying mechanisms and conditions under which public financing can support the sustained delivery of drinking water services in rural Africa and Asia.

Her previous work has included researching and evaluating multi-country systems strengthening and financing initiatives, managing monitoring and evaluation for multi-partner programs, and leading and evaluating water and sanitation governance initiatives, with organisations including REACH-Water and the Rural Water Supply Network, Welthungerhilfe, Concern Worldwide, and Engineers Without Borders Canada. Kristina is the Operations Coordinator for Uptime Global.