Walter Weaver leads DAI’s climate integration team and has been an international development practitioner for more than 29 years. He works on diverse environmental challenges worldwide with an interdisciplinary lens as he has worked in more than 35 countries. Walter has served as a technical advisor and/or Acting Chief of Party on water and environment projects in Bolivia, El Salvador, Fiji, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Jordan, Lebanon, Madagascar, Mozambique, Nepal, Nicaragua, Papua New Guinea, Peru, the Philippines, Senegal, and Vietnam. This includes support to projects in water, sanitation, and hygiene; urban water demand management; climate change adaptation, energy efficiency; biodiversity conservation, waste recycling, and industrial pollution prevention. Most recently, he served as Acting Chief of Party for HARENA, an activity in Madagascar focused on natural resources management, livelihoods, and climate resilience in three landscapes, and before that on the Building Climate Resilience Activity in Honduras, a flagship project to improve water resources management, conserve critical ecosystems aligned with livelihood opportunities, and improve capacity in climate resilience. Previously, he served as DAI’s Vice President for Asia, managing a portfolio of some 21 projects in the environment, economic growth, and governance sectors across central, south, and southeast Asia. Earlier in his career, he spent over a decade supporting environment programs in Latin America.

• M.A., international relations, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies
• B.A., political economy of industrial societies, University of California, Berkeley