Dr. Stephen Maxwell Donkor

Stephen Max Donkor (https://nl.linkedin.com/in/stephenmaxdonkor) is a Water Resource Management Expert with more than 30 years of experience working in Africa. He obtained a Ph,D in Engineering from the Colorado State University in 1991 after an MSc in Water Management from the Wageningen University in the Netherlands in 1979. His Undergraduate degree was from the University of Ghana in 1977.

As a member of the African Water Task force, he helped develop the African Water Facility. For the UN Economic Commission for Africa, he served as the Senior Regional Advisor for Water Resources Development & Management and Project Manager of the IGWA project, contributing to co-authoring the African Water Vision 2025, the African Water Development Report (AWDR), setting up the African Water Journal and African Water Information Clearing House (AWICH), and providing technical assistance and policy recommendations for African governments on integrated water resource management.

As UNICEF Chief and Sector Lead, he also managed a $15 million WASH Programme for UNICEF in South Sudan. He has provided technical and advisory services to Lake Chad, Niger, Volta, Nile and Congo River basin countries and executed technical missions to many SSA Countries including Ethiopia, Nigeria, D.R Congo, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Cameroon, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Niger and Angola. As Regional Coordinator and Team Leader of the Guinea Current Large Marine Ecosystem program of GEF, he undertook an analysis of the Impact of climate change on the coastal areas of the countries of the Gulf of Guinea.

Prior to the UN, he served as Senior Lecturer at the Wageningen University in the Netherlands where he lead teams to set up capacity building programs in Pakistan and Botswana. From 2013 to 2015 he is served as the THEMA leader for Water Resources Management of the Africa Union-European Union Partnership project on “Monitoring Environment and Security in Africa” and from 2015 to 2016 served as the Senior Adviser for Transboundary Water Resources Management in Africa for the Stockholm International Water Management Institute.

Currently he is an Independent Consultant with his own start up, Holland Africa Research and Development Ltd and based in Accra, Ghana.