Jenniver Sehring is a Political Scientist who joined IHE Delft in 2018. Her research and teaching activities focus on water governance at local, national and transboundary levels and on institutional arrangements as well as practices of water cooperation and diplomacy. She is also interested in exploring how gender relations and affective aspects like emotions shape water politics and water diplomacy.
Prior to joining IHE, Jenniver worked for different organisations engaged in supporting water cooperation, including the European Union, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), the German Federal Foreign Office, and the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). In these positions, she analysed and advised on security-related aspects of water and environment, and was involved in several water governance and diplomacy programmes, particularly in Central Asia.
Before that, Jenniver was affiliated with several German universities. At the Centre for International Development and Environmental Research (ZEU) of the University of Giessen, she was a junior researcher in an interdisciplinary project on water shortage, water management and water conflicts in Central Asia. Subsequently, she was a lecturer at the Institute of Political Science of the FernUniversität in Hagen and assistant professor in comparative politics at the University of Würzburg (Germany).
Jenniver studied Political Science and Social Anthropology at the University of Mainz (Germany). She completed her PhD in 2008 at the FernUniverstät in Hagen (Germany) with a thesis on the politics of water institutional reforms in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.
Jenniver is an editor of the Central Asian Journal of Water Research (CAJWR), and a research fellow at the Center for Natural Resources and Sustainability of the Kazakh-German University (Kazakhstan). She is also a visiting scientist at the International Forest Policy Research Group at the University of Helsinki (Finland), and courtesy faculty member in the Water Resources Policy Management Program of Oregon State University (USA).
Publications
A complete list of publications can be found in Google Scholar.