Ioana Dobrescu is approaching a decade of experience in the international water sector. Originally from Romania, she obtained her BSc degree in Environmental Sciences in Cluj-Napoca and her MSc in Nature Conservation from Wageningen University in the Netherlands.
She has held various adviser and project manager positions mainly on work between Romania and the Netherlands, but also at a wider international level. Besides her current position as project manager at Water Footprint Implementation, she is also a programme officer for the Wetskills Water Challenge foundation. Ioana is a participant in the first batch of the European Junior Water Programme and since January 2020 she has become involved in the organization also as project officer, using her participant experience to give shape to the programme for the next generations of european water professionals!