Plans for new dams, canals, and treatment plants will fail without governance reform, pollution control, and demand management
Lama Abdul Samad is a water and environmental specialist with over twenty years of experience in water governance, WASH programming, and climate resilience across the Middle East and North Africa. She currently serves as a global water and sanitation expert with Oxfam’s Global Humanitarian Team, where she has led major responses in Gaza, Yemen, Syria, Turkey, Morocco, and Lebanon. Her work spans shaping global strategies on water security and climate adaptation, advancing rights-based approaches to water and sanitation, and authoring regional and global policy studies. Lama holds an M.Sc. in Environmental Sciences from the American University of Beirut. Bridging research and practice, her work focuses on the political economy of water, climate change adaptation, and equitable access in fragile and conflict settings.
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