Kristina is a governance and development professional focused on water and sanitation service delivery, who has worked with multi-country and global projects and programmes, and in Nepal, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Malawi. She is currently a PhD student at the University of Oxford, studying mechanisms and conditions under which public financing can support the sustained delivery of drinking water services in rural Africa and Asia, and works with Uptime Global on results-based funding contracts supporting rural water service delivery.
Her previous work has included researching and evaluating multi-country systems strengthening and financing initiatives, managing monitoring and evaluation for multi-partner programs, and leading and evaluating water and sanitation governance initiatives, with organisations including REACH-Water and the Rural Water Supply Network, Welthungerhilfe, Concern Worldwide, and Engineers Without Borders Canada.