{"id":247,"date":"2025-10-02T03:39:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/cross-katharine\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T03:39:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:39:33","slug":"cross-katharine","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/cross-katharine\/","title":{"rendered":"Cross Katharine"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"content column wide left normal content view\" id=\"content\">\n<div class=\"rounded-corner\"><\/div>\n<article class=\"fader\">\n<header class=\"contents\">\n<h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tKatharine Cross<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article\">\n<div class=\"author_addthis\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n    var addthis_config = {\n        ui_language = 'en'\n    }\n<\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"addthis sharing\">\n    <!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><\/p>\n<div class=\"addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style\" addthis:title=\"Cross Katharine\">\n    <a class=\"addthis_button_facebook_like\" fb:like:layout=\"button_count\"><\/a><br \/>\n    <a class=\"addthis_button_tweet\" tw:via=\"thebrokeronline\"><\/a><br \/>\n    <a class=\"addthis_button_pinterest_pinit\"><\/a><br \/>\n    <a class=\"addthis_counter addthis_pill_style\"><\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<p>    <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/js\/300\/addthis_widget.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n    <!-- AddThis Button END -->\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"addthis article_options\">\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"body contents\">\n<div class=\"object-left\">\n<div class=\"img border\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/var\/broker\/storage\/images\/authors\/cross-katharine\/331694-1-eng-gb\/cross-katharine_author.jpg\" alt=\"Cross Katharine\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOrganisation:<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tInternational Water Association<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<br class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWebsite:<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iwahq.org\/4c\/about-iwa\/staff.html\">Personal profile at the International Water Association<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<br class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">Katharine Cross is Programmes Coordinator at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iwahq.org\/1nb\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\">International Water Association<\/a> (IWA). Katharine joined IWA in July 2012 as a Programmes Coordinator with a focus on water, climate and energy, and the linkage between basins and cities, as well as providing technical support to other programmes. She has a background in water resources and environmental management with an MSc in Environment and Development at the London School of Economics in 2005, a Master\u2019s in Environmental Engineering from the University of Alberta, and a BSc in Environmental Biology from Queen\u2019s University in Canada. Katharine previously worked for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iucn.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">International Union for Conservation of Nature<\/a> (IUCN) in Nairobi as the Technical Coordinator for Water and Wetlands in Eastern and Southern Africa, as well as with IUCN at the headquarters in Switzerland in the Global Water Programme. She has also worked as an environmental scientist for a consulting company in the oil and gas sector in Edmonton, Alberta, and on technical projects in Bolivia and Ghana with Engineers Without Borders.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"children\">\n<div class=\"article\">\n<section class=\"children related\">\n<div class=\"article\">\n<div class=\"wleft\">\n<div class=\"img\">\n<div class=\"overlay\"><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/blogs\/prioritising-water\/the-water-energy-food-nexus-as-solution\/\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/var\/broker\/storage\/images\/blogs\/prioritising-water\/the-water-energy-food-nexus-as-solution\/331779-1-eng-gb\/the-water-energy-food-nexus-as-solution_column.jpg\" alt=\"The Water-Energy-Food nexus as solution\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"wright\">\n<header>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/blogs\/prioritising-water\/the-water-energy-food-nexus-as-solution\/\">The Water-Energy-Food nexus as solution<\/a><\/h3>\n<h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/cross-katharine\/\">Katharine Cross<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t|<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t19 February 2025<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h4>\n<\/header>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">\n\t\t\tIn order to address water infrastructure challenges, it is crucial to examine opportunities deriving from the Water-Energy-Food nexus.\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/blogs\/prioritising-water\/the-water-energy-food-nexus-as-solution\/\">read more<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"navigator\">\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n","protected":false,"raw":""},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katharine Cross Organisation: International Water Association Website: Personal profile [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template_4.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-247","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cross Katharine \/ Authors - The Broker<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Katharine Cross is Programmes Coordinator at the International Water Association.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/cross-katharine\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cross Katharine \/ Authors - The Broker\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Katharine Cross is Programmes Coordinator at the International Water Association.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/cross-katharine\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Homepage - Broker Online\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Cross Katharine \/ Authors - The Broker","description":"Katharine Cross is Programmes Coordinator at the International Water Association.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/cross-katharine\/","og_type":"article","og_title":"Cross Katharine \/ Authors - The Broker","og_description":"Katharine Cross is Programmes Coordinator at the International Water Association.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/cross-katharine\/","og_site_name":"Homepage - Broker Online","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Est. reading time":"1 minute"}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}