Elsa Semmling
Diplom Economist, Master of Economics
Senior Manager
Elsa Semmling is a Senior Manager at adelphi. Her focus is water: working at the interface between research, politics and practice, she ensures that knowledge on global developments in the water sector reaches the target groups. This includes organisations that promote the sustainable use of water resources and develop suitable solutions at the local level. Elsa relies on networking and dialogue because she is convinced that cooperation between the government, industry and interest groups is key to avoiding water conflicts.
“In our globally networked world, we all have a responsibility to see and treat water as a valuable global resource. At adelphi, I can work to ensure that there is a greater focus on the sustainable use of water at various levels – in this way, water is taken into account as an integral part of all decisions about natural resources.”
Selected Projects
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Client: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Term: 08/2022 - 07/2025
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Client: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Term: 10/2021 - 06/2022
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Client: Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU)
Term: 04/2020 - 03/2021
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Client: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Term: 02/2017 - 03/2022
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Client: European Commission, Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME)
Term: 03/2015 - 02/2017
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Client: Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU)
Term: 12/2014 - 04/2015
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Client: European Commission, EuropeAid - Co-operation Office
Term: 01/2012 - 03/2016
Selected publications
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Berger, Markus; Jazmin Campos, Mauro Carolli, Ianna Dantas, Silvia Forin, Ervin Kosatica, Annika Kramer, Natalia Mikosch, Hamideh Nouri, Anna Schlattmann, Falk Schmidt, Anna Schomberg and Elsa Semmling 2021: Advancing the Water Footprint into an Instrument to Support Achieving the SDGs. Recommendations from the “Water as a Global Resource” Research Initiative (GRoW). In: Water Resources Management (2021) 35, 1291–1298.
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Semmling, Elsa und Annika Kramer 2019: Wasser als globale Ressource. Globale Analysen und lokale Lösungen für ein nachhaltiges Wassermanagement auf der GRoW-Statuskonferenz 2019. In: Korrespondenz Wasserwirtschaft, 12 (2019):5, 262-264.
