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Tanya Huizer

Senior Water Resilience Specialist, Water and Urban Development
Asian Development Bank

Ms. Tanya Huizer is a senior water resilience specialist at Asian Development Bank with experience in working on integrated coastal & river basin management, social inclusion, Nature-Based-Solutions and integrating water and urban developments for resilient cities. She worked for over 12 years at an engineering firm worldwide water consultant, project manager and Shelter program manager for the CSRpartnership with UN-Habitat. She also held position at the Netherlands Embassy in Myanmar. In ADB, she coordinates the Water Resilience Trust Fund (WRTF) and works on partnerships, youth engagement, the laundry transformation, river basin twinning and water resilience in Asia and the Pacific. Tanya holds a B.Sc. in Environmental System Analysis and a M.Sc. in Environmental Sciences with a specialization in marine & coastal management at Wageningen University and Research Centre in the Netherlands.