Ms. Claire A. Kfouri is a Senior Water and Sanitation Specialist at the Middle East and North Africa region of the World Bank in Washington DC. An environmental engineer by training, Ms. Kfouri currently leads the World Bank’s water and sanitation portfolio in Lebanon. She holds advanced degrees in water resources and environmental engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of Guelph (Canada) and is fluent in English, French and Arabic. She can be reached at ckfouri@worldbank.org