Position at SIWI: Programme Manager, Knowledge Services
Email: jenny.gronwall@siwi.org
Phone: +46 8 121 360 98
Responsibilities
Dr. Jenny Grönwall is a Programme Manager working with the thematic area of water, energy and food nexus. She is responsible for the policy and groundwater component of the programme for Sustainable Water Resources management of the textile business (SWAR), Delhi region and Jaipur, India (co-funded by Sida). Dr Grönwall is also responsible for interviewing rice farmers about their knowledge on and responses to water-related impacts from climate change in the Mekong and Red River deltas, Viet Nam (co-funded by Sida).
Competence
Fields of experience include applied research projects in developing and middle-income countries, on sustainable development, urban and peri-urban water management, urban water utilities and institutions, water, sanitation and health aspects, groundwater policy and governance. Dr Grönwall has extensive experience from doing field work, conducting interviews and surveys especially among poor end-users of water.
Background
Dr Grönwall obtained her interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Water Management from the Department of Water and Environmental Studies (Tema Vatten) at Linköping University in 2008. She has an LL.B and LL.M degree (jur. kand) from the School of Business, Economics and Law at the Gothenburg University. Prior to joining SIWI, Dr Grönwall worked with household water conservation at the Regulation and Supervision Bureau, Abu Dhabi. She has been a consultant with the London-based International Institute for Environment and Development as well as the Singapore-based Institute of Water Policy. She has worked with the Environmental Protection Agency (Naturvårdsverket) before teaching environmental law mainly at the universities of Linköping (the Environmental Science Programme at Campus Norrköping) and Stockholm (Department of Law).
Dr. Grönwall has published numerous articles and reports related to access to water, development and poverty alleviation, groundwater and urban water governance, with a geographical focus on India.
