Baptiste Michellod worked at the World Bank’s CIWA multi-donor trust fund as a Mercator Fellow on International Affairs. He previously held positions at IHE Delft in the Netherlands and GIZ in Uzbekistan, where he worked on climate-resilient transboundary water governance and climate development finance. He also held a project manager role for the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs. He holds a master’s degree in International Affairs from the Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, and a bachelor’s degree in International Relations from the University of Geneva, Switzerland.