Christine Colvin is the Policy manager for Freshwater and joined WWF International in late 2022.  She has worked in Europe and Africa on water policy and law development and has extensive advocacy experience, building community-public-private- partnerships for water resilience. She has an M.Sc in Hydrogeology and is passionate about better use of groundwater resources, particularly for drought. 

Colvin led the Freshwater program in South Africa for 9 years, establishing strategic Water Source Areas and developing the Journey of Water with her colleagues. More recently in the United Kingdom she was Director for Advocacy and Communications with The Rivers Trust and played a critical role in strengthening the United Kingdom’s new Environment Act on sewage pollution. She works with the WWF network to link nature restoration and climate adaptation and ensure that living solutions give long term water resilience for people and nature.