Dhesigen Naidoo

Dhesigen Naidoo is Chief Executive Officer of the Water Research Commission (WRC), South Africa’s dedicated National Water and Sanitation Innovation, Research, and Development Agency. He is also Senior Research Associate on African Futures & Innovation at the Institute for Security Studies (ISS Africa), President of the global NGO Human Right 2 Water and a founding member of the Water Policy Group. He started his career as a medical scientist in a specialist children’s hospital and he has served in senior positions in the South African national government and South African universities. Naidoo is a Councillor of the South African National Advisory Council on Innovation (NACI) and a Fellow of the Mapangubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA).