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Zaki S. Shubber is a lawyer and CEDR certified mediator who specialises in national and international water law, and in conflict resolution. In addition to these topics, she has an interest in the legal aspects of the international management of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. She is currently pursuing doctoral research at the Queen Mary University in London on the concept of uncertainty in international law particularly in the context of shared freshwater resources.

Prior to that Zaki practiced corporate, finance and aviation law in London in Geneva for almost a decade before focusing on water related issues for the last ten years. She worked as lecturer in law and water diplomacy at IHE Delft Institute for Water Education in the Netherlands, where she taught water law, water conflict management and water diplomacy for many years. She was module and specialisation coordinator for water conflict management, and established and coordinated the master programme in ‘Water Cooperation and Diplomacy’ offered jointly with the University for Peace in Costa Rica and Oregon State University in the U.S. She developed and coordinated the DUPC2 Water Diplomacy Programme and organised and contributed to numerous trainings and workshops worldwide in her fields of expertise. Zaki also played a key role in reinvigorating water resources management activities with the Ministry of Water Resources of Iraq and coordinated activities and workshops on related topics.

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Zaki is a law graduate of the University of Geneva and has postgraduate degrees from the Universities of London (SOAS) and Dundee, where she specialised in international law and water governance and conflict resolution.

Publications

·      “Anchoring water diplomacy – The legal aspects of international river basin organisations’, Schmeier Susanne and Zaki Shubber, Journal of Hydrology,  567 (2018) 114-120

·      “ 3-step framework for water conflict management” Shubber Zaki and Nora van Cauwenbergh, IAHS Scientific Assembly 2017, IAHS 2017-243
(https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/IAHS2017/IAHS2017-243.pdf)

·      “Engaging with the politics of water governance” Zwarteveen, M., Kemerink-Seyoum, J. S., Kooy, M., Evers, J., Guerrero, T. A., Batubara, B., Biza, A., Boakye-Ansah, A., Faber, S., Cabrera Flamini, A., Cuadrado-Quesada, G., Fantini, E., Gupta, J., Hasan, S., ter Horst, R., Jamali, H., Jaspers, F., Obani, P., Schwartz, K., Shubber, Z., Smit, H., Torio, P., Tutusaus, M. and Wesselink, A. (2017), WIREs Water, doi:10.1002/wat2.1245

·       “Governance structures for transboundary water management in the Jordan Basin”, Yaari E., Neal (Patrick) M.J., Shubber Z. 2015, Stockholm International Water Institute, Stockholm (http://www.siwi.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Partner-publication-Basin-Structure-TWM-web.pdf) 

·      “Myanmar Integrated Water Resources Management – Strategic Study” Royal Haskoning, Arcadis, UNESCO-IHE, 2014 – Contributed to the section on water legislation  (Executive Report - https://www.royalhaskoningdhv.com/~/media/royalhaskoningdhvcorporate/files/global/projects/water/executive_report_nov2014_myanmar-iwrm-strategy-study-final-version.pdf?la=en-gb)

·      “Building Bridges between the Sciences and the Arts of Water Co-operation through Collective Action – Reflection”, Co-author, At the Confluence – Selection from the 2013 World Water Week in Stockholm, Aquatic Procedia, Volume 2, 2014, 48-54

(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214241X14000091)