Current Panel Members

 Roberto Lenton, Chairperson

Mr. Lenton, a national of Argentina, was appointed to the Panel in September 1, 2007.  He is currently Chair of the Technical Committee of the Global Water Partnership (GWP) and Chair of the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC).  He is also a member of the Board of Directors for WaterAid America and Senior Advisor at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) at Columbia University.  For three years, he coordinated the Task Force on Water and Sanitation for the UN Millennium Project.  Mr. Lenton has worked in development for over thirty years and has considerable experience in Asia, Latin America, and Africa. Earlier in his career, he was Director for Sustainable Energy and Environment at the United Nations Development Programme, Director General of the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), and Program Officer in the Rural Poverty and Resource Program of the Ford Foundation.  Mr. Lenton earned a Civil Engineering Degree from the University of Buenos Aires and a PhD in Hydrology and Water Resource Systems from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

 

    Alf Morten Jerve, Panel Member

Mr. Jerve, a national of Norway, brings to the Panel close to three decades of work in the field of development. As a Social Anthropologist by training, he has been engaged in a wide range of development activities including extensive field research in Africa and Asia. Among his assignments was a three year posting to Tanzania with the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation as coordinator of a rural development program. From 1993-95 he was responsible for resettlement and rehabilitation issues with projects in Bangladesh during an assignment with the World Bank. In 1995 he became Assistant Director, and served as Director in 2005 and 2006, at the Christian Michelsen Institute in Norway, an internationally recognized development research institution where he has also devoted his energies and expertise to do research and analysis of a wide variety of policy and program issues affecting people in developing countries.

Over the years, Mr. Jerve also has led and participated in numerous independent evaluations commissioned by bilateral and multilateral development agencies, and served as a Member of the Roster of Experts for the Asian Development Bank’s Inspection Function.  He earned his Magister Degree in Social Anthropology from the University of Bergen and his Bachelor’s degree is in the areas of Environmental Science and Biology.  His publications have focused on rural development, decentralization and poverty reduction and most recently on issues of ownership in development aid cooperation.