Dr. Amy Sullivan is a private consultant focusing on gender, water, and natural resource-based livelihood systems across Africa and Asia. A former US Peace Corps Volunteer in Senegal, and trained at the University of Florida in the US, she joined the Pretoria South Africa office of the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) as part of the Challenge Programme on Water and Food (CPWF) in 2004. She guided research teams in establishing relationships between customary water arrangements and emerging statutory governance systems. In 2010 she joined the Food, Agriculture, and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN) as the Limpopo Basin Leader of CPWF. In that role and as the theme lead for the natural resource and environment programme at FANRPAN, she developed and coordinated multi-disciplinary teams to diagnose, document and address challenges facing smallholder farmers in a region heavily influenced by climate change, migration, and mining. As a consultant since 2014, Amy has focused on gender transformative approaches in development and led the Inclusive Service Delivery team for the Iraq Governance and Performance Accountability. She is currently a member of the Global Water Partnership (GWP) Africa Water Investment Programme Technical Reference Group monitoring and contributing to inclusive water security and climate resilience through gender transformative approaches in the Africa Water Investment Support Programme to Water, Climate, Development and Gender (WACDEP-G). She is based in Pretoria.