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Bota Sharipova
Bota Sharipova is from Kazakhstan and has been involved in a wide range of water-related transboundary projects in the Aral Sea Basin since 2011. During 2011-2017, she worked for the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea (IFAS), and from 2017-2018 was with the Natural Resources Institute at the German-Kazakh University. With a background in International Relations, she graduated with her Master’s degree in Integrated Water Resources Management from the German-Kazakh University in 2016, and in 2020 with a Water Cooperation and Diplomacy Joint Master’s degree from the University for Peace, the IHE-Delft Institute for Water Education and the Oregon State University. She currently works as a Junior expert on Central Asia for the International Secretariat for Water (ISW), and as a Consultant on water education in Central Asia for the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation.