Giorgio Nembrini
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Education
Dr. Giorgio Nembrini (born April 4, 1946), graduated in Chemical Engineering from the University of Geneva in 1971 where he went on to teach analytical chemistry. He has degrees in Environmental Chemistry, and Tropical Medicine and Health from the University of Liverpool, England.
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Cooperation with the International Committee of the Red Cross
Starting in 1983, Dr. Giorgio Nembrini, develops and supervises the water sanitation section for the ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross) with missions in 40 countries.
In 1995 he becomes the ICRC regional coordinator for East Africa and the Great Lakes for water and environmental health.
Indipendent cooperations
From 1998 to 2000 he works as an independent consultant on the research project “Cities in war, thirsty cities”, dealing with water supply issues in war-torn cities, sponsored by the Geneva Foundation. This research takes him to Mogadishu (Somalia), Sarajevo (Bosnia-Herzegovina), Beirut (Lebanon), Bujumbura (Burundi), Monrovia (Liberia), and Kigali (Rwanda).
Return to the Red Cross
From 2001 to 2002 he is ICRC coordinator for the “Water Habitat Program” in Afghanistan with missions in Kabul, Harat, Kandahar, Jalalabad and the region of Mazar-I-Sharif in collaboration with UNICEF, DFID, HABITAT CARE and NGO’s.
Presently he is again project coordinator for East Africa and the Great Lakes region.
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His expertise is in the field of complex water sanitation problems: drinking water installation networks and wells; waste water disposal management; displaced people and refugee camps layout; reconstruction of damaged service structures; the control and containment of epidemics such as cholera. He has carried out water sanitation evaluations in more than 80 prisons.
He has published extensively..