The Strait Times: Tharman appointed co-chair of global project to transform water governance

The independent Global Commission on the Economics of Water – launched at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland – will present evidence and pathways for global changes in policy, business approaches and collaboration to support climate and water justice, sustainability, and food-energy-water security.

Mr Tharman’s co-chairs are Professor Mariana Mazzucato, the founding director of the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose at University College London; World Trade Organisation director-general Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala; and Professor Johan Rockstrom, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.