Dr. Naho Mirumachi

Dr. Naho Mirumachi is a Lecturer at the Department of Geography, King’s College London. Trained in political science, international studies and human geography, she has research interests in the politics of water resources management, particularly in developing country contexts. Her research focuses on international transboundary river basins and examines three inter-related themes: institutions of water allocation; power and environmental discourse; scale and agency. Her recent work examined evidence of dynamics of conflict and cooperation intensity changes in bilateral hydropolitical relationships and developed an original conceptual framework, the Transboundary Waters Interaction NexuS (TWINS). She has fieldwork experience in the Orange-Senqu River basin in Southern Africa, Ganges River basin in South Asia, and the Mekong River basin in Southeast Asia.

Naho is also a Visiting Research Fellow at the School of International Development, University of East Anglia. In addition to collaborating on research with the School, she currently co-directs the Water Security Short Course for Policy-Makers and Practitioners, which is a joint initiative by the London Water Research Group and University of East Anglia Water Security Centre.