Senior lecturer | Department of Water Governance
IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
Emanuele Fantini is Senior lecturer and researcher at IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, Department of Water Governance (Delft, The Netherlands). He holds a PhD in Political Sciences (University of Turin) and a European Master in Human Rights and Democratization (University of Padua). Emanuele’s research interests include: water governance, water conflicts and the human right to water, social movements, religion in public spaces (politics and development), media studies, visual research methods, with geographic focus on Ethiopia, the Nile basin and Italy. Committed to public engagement and crossover projects with artists and journalists, Emanuele coordinates the project “Open Water Diplomacy. Media, science and transboundary cooperation in the Nile basin”, he is the author and host of the podcasts “The Sources of the Nile”, “The House of Water”, “Water Alternatives Podcast” and “Si dice acqua”, and he is the editor of IHE Delft Water Governance Blog, FLOWs.