Catherine Anne Brown

Prof. Cate Brown is a freshwater ecologist with 30 years of experience, with the bulk of these in southern Africa. She specialises in understanding the links between aquatic ecosystem functioning and flows of water, sediments and biota. She was the environmental flow coordinator for the Lesotho Highlands EFlows assessments (1997-2002) and EFlows advisor to LHDA for ten years (1997-2007). She was also leader for the EFlows assessments for, inter alia, the Olifants-Doorn (South Africa), Breede (South Africa), Pangani (Tanzania), Okavango (Angola, Namibia, Botswana), Kunene (Angola, Namibia), Pungwe (Zimbabwe, Mozambique) and Zambezi (Mozambique), Kafue (Zambia), Maputo (Mozambique), Mekong (Lao PDR, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam), Nile (Sudan), Kagera (Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda), St Paul (Liberia) and Neelum-Jhelum (Pakistan) rivers. She is, or has been, involved in EFlows work in South Africa, Angola, Bangladesh, Botswana, Brazzaville Congo, Burundi, Cambodia, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Lao PDR, Lesotho, Liberia, Namibia, Nepal, Mozambique, Malawi, Pakistan (Kashmir), Peru, Rwanda, Solomon Islands, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, Vietnam, Zambia and Zimbabwe, acting either as Project Manager or Task Manager in most of these.